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  Pediatric Bioethics Conference To Feature JW Minors and Blood Transfusion Issue

  by gladimout in

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  http://www.seattlechildrens.org/research/initiatives/bioethics/events/pediatric-bioethics-conference/.

  2013 conference: cases that keep us awake at night: challenges in pediatric bioethicsjuly 19 and 20, 2013, bell harbor international conference center, seattleregistration opens in mid-januaryclinical ethics seeks to address the ethical issues that arise in the care of individual patients.

  clinicians and families may seek advice from the clinical ethics consultant or ethics committee when cases present difficult issues or significant conflicts over values.

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  gladimout

  FYI

  The conference with be filmed, archived, and made available on Katz' website.
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  Pediatric Bioethics Conference To Feature JW Minors and Blood Transfusion Issue

  by gladimout in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.seattlechildrens.org/research/initiatives/bioethics/events/pediatric-bioethics-conference/.

  2013 conference: cases that keep us awake at night: challenges in pediatric bioethicsjuly 19 and 20, 2013, bell harbor international conference center, seattleregistration opens in mid-januaryclinical ethics seeks to address the ethical issues that arise in the care of individual patients.

  clinicians and families may seek advice from the clinical ethics consultant or ethics committee when cases present difficult issues or significant conflicts over values.

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  gladimout

  It would be great to get updates on this and how it plays out in the media.

  I doubt the conference will get much media attention because the bioethical universe is pretty small. However, I will be attending the conference, and I will update the board as to the discussions surrounding the issue.
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  Pediatric Bioethics Conference To Feature JW Minors and Blood Transfusion Issue

  by gladimout in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.seattlechildrens.org/research/initiatives/bioethics/events/pediatric-bioethics-conference/.

  2013 conference: cases that keep us awake at night: challenges in pediatric bioethicsjuly 19 and 20, 2013, bell harbor international conference center, seattleregistration opens in mid-januaryclinical ethics seeks to address the ethical issues that arise in the care of individual patients.

  clinicians and families may seek advice from the clinical ethics consultant or ethics committee when cases present difficult issues or significant conflicts over values.

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  gladimout

  I wonder if they are up to speed with the concept that there is no such thing as a Muslim child, or a Catholic child, or a Jehovah's Witness child

  If only your statement were true Phizzy. The courts can declare that an adolescent has the decision-making abilities of an adult and is independently able to consent (or refuse) for religious reasons. In essence, that child can be a Muslim, Catholic, JW, etc.

  The Lindberg case will be discussed at the confererence. Here is an excerpt from a local paper concerrning the case:

  With the transfusions and other treatment, Lindberg had been given a 70 percent chance of surviving the next five years, Meyer said in court, based on what the boy's doctors told him. Without them, he was likely to die. But his decision in what the judge called a "stunning case, which brings into play issues including, but not confined to, religious freedoms," was based strictly on facts.

  "I don't believe Dennis' decision is the result of any coercion. He is mature and understands the consequences of his decision," Meyer said during Wednesday's court proceedings.

  "I don't think Dennis is trying to commit suicide. This isn't something Dennis just came upon, and he believes with the transfusion he would be unclean and unworthy."

  Parents and classmates of the boy, who had lived with his aunt for the past four years, cried in disbelief at the judge's decision. Wherry fled the courtroom in tears.

  Mincin has repeatedly declined to speak about her nephew's ordeal. For legal privacy reasons, doctors and officials at Children's also have declined to speak about the boy's condition.

  Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Boy-dies-of-leukemia-after-refusing-treatment-for-1257094.php#ixzz2HUc80kyN
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  Pediatric Bioethics Conference To Feature JW Minors and Blood Transfusion Issue

  by gladimout in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.seattlechildrens.org/research/initiatives/bioethics/events/pediatric-bioethics-conference/.

  2013 conference: cases that keep us awake at night: challenges in pediatric bioethicsjuly 19 and 20, 2013, bell harbor international conference center, seattleregistration opens in mid-januaryclinical ethics seeks to address the ethical issues that arise in the care of individual patients.

  clinicians and families may seek advice from the clinical ethics consultant or ethics committee when cases present difficult issues or significant conflicts over values.

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  http://www.seattlechildrens.org/research/initiatives/bioethics/events/pediatric-bioethics-conference/

  2013 Conference: Cases That Keep Us Awake at Night: Challenges in Pediatric Bioethics

  July 19 and 20, 2013, Bell Harbor International Conference Center, Seattle

  Registration opens in mid-January

  Clinical ethics seeks to address the ethical issues that arise in the care of individual patients. Clinicians and families may seek advice from the clinical ethics consultant or ethics committee when cases present difficult issues or significant conflicts over values. These situations must be resolved, but may leave those involved feeling unsettled and uncertain about whether the best resolution was achieved. The focus of this conference will be those cases that keep clinical ethics consultants and ethics committee members awake at night and test their moral values:

  • Should a teenager be allowed to refuse a lifesaving blood transfusion on religious grounds?
  • Should an organ transplant be performed over a family’s objections?
  • Should Child Protective Services intervene when a family fails to address the eating habits of a morbidly obese child?

  Renowned leaders in the field of pediatric bioethics will come together to discuss these issues July 19 and 20, 2013, in Seattle. Come join us and add your voice and perspective as we grapple with these ethical questions through presentations and panel discussions.

  You can look forward to a stimulating program set in one of the country’s most vibrant and beautiful cities. We hope you can attend.
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  Watchtower softens position on Jehovah' Witnesses and blood transfusions? Canadian National Post Story.

  by Balaamsass in

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  without fanfare, jehovahs witnesses quietly soften position on blood transfusionstom blackwell, national post staff | dec 20, 2012 9:59 pm et.

  more from national post staff.

  calgary herald/fileslawrence hughes broke with the witnesses, and the rest of his own family, when it tried to prevent his teenage daughter, bethany, who died in 2002, from receiving a blood transfusion while being treated for cancer.twittergoogle+linkedinemailcommentsmoretumblrpinterestredditdiggfarkitstumbleuponfor years, the jehovahs witnesses fiercely held belief that blood transfusions are contrary to gods will led to emotional and very public disputes, hospitals clashing with parents over whether to infuse sick children.. that long history of messy legal confrontations appears to be vanishing, however, amid changing approaches to the issue on both sides, health-care officials say.. the churchs ban on accepting blood still stands, but some major pediatric hospitals have begun officially acknowledging the parents unorthodox beliefs, while many jehovahs witnesses are signing letters recognizing that doctors may sometimes feel obliged to transfuse, they say.. as institutions show more respect toward parents faith and try harder not to use blood, witnesses often seem eager to avoid involving child-welfare authorities to facilitate transfusions, and more accepting that canadian case law is firmly on the doctors side, some hospital officials say.. they get it that were going to transfuse where its medically necessary.

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  It seems to me that the softening and compromise is coming from the bioethicists

  Actually, I disagree. Most doctors have tried to respect the JWs' no-blood stance in the past, haven't they?

  I tend to agree with Jgnat; bioethicists and social workers are a major driver of this trend. Medical paternalism was very strong until recently, but the medical community, to its credit, retreated from that stance. Now, doctors regularly consult with social workers and ethicists before making their decisions. While the trend is good, the effect of the trend on JW minors is not for the following reasons.

  The American Pediatric Society officially adopted the common law Rule of Sevens which contains the presumption that a minor over the age of fourteen is competent to refuse life-sustaining treatment. Therefore, the trend is to allow a minor to dictate his or her medical treatment, including refusing blood. In sum, they declare the JW child a mature minor.

  The hospital (doctors/legal department) act as judicial gatekeepers. If they decide the JW child is a mature minor, the cases never even make it to court for judicial review.

  Likely, the WTBTS is not overtly fighting these preliminary agreements because the hospitals frequently meet JW's demands.