Posted on Thu, Mar. 02, 2006
Judge extends 2-year-old's life support
BY ROXANA HEGEMAN
Associated Press
The parents of a 2-year-old boy who nearly drowned won a temporary reprieve Wednesday in their battle to keep Wesley Medical Center from pulling the plug on their son's life support.
District Judge Timothy Lahey ordered Wesley to provide medical care and barred doctors from removing life support until at least March 21, when he will revisit the case.
Lahey also refused a request by the hospital and doctors to order -- against the parents' wishes -- a brain viability study and other tests to determine whether Brett Shively Jr. is brain dead, as his doctors believe.
The boy has been in the hospital since he nearly drowned in the family bathtub Feb. 4.
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Question Should patient care be left in the hands of family (in this case, the boy's parents) or should it be left up to the doctor?