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Originally Posted by DrPhil
Is there immense pressure to fire someone considering the threat of lawsuit? Do you think she may not have been fired had this not resulted in the death of a child?
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If it had been a 75 year old who died, with the same thing happening (too much medication), no one would have given a shit.
The concept of a baby's/child's life as more important (for lack of a better word) than an adult's makes me ill and it's incredibly prevalent in this society. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but it's the truth. Infant/child mortality has gone down so much that we think if it ever happens, someone DID something wrong. From the story, it sounds as though this baby would never have made it to age 5, if that.
Yes it's sad when a child dies without having lived a full life, but we don't know everything, and sometimes, that IS their full life. You go when you're supposed to go. It's no sadder than, as I said, a 75 year old passing away.