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A 4 page discussion of the case outlined in an August 2003 article published in the Ethics Journal of the American Medical Society and titled "Faith-based Decisions: Parents Who Refuse Appropriate Care
for Their Child". The case is commented on by three separate physicians, all of whom contend that a parent's right to chose their own religion and
that of their child is overridden when the religion interferes with securing recommended medical care for that child. Bibliography lists no additional sources.
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4 pages (~225 words per page)
File: AM2_PPmedRfs.rtf
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Ethics Journal of the American Medical Society and titled "Faith-based Decisions: Parents Who Refuse Appropriate Care for Their Child" three different physicians critique the actions of a mother and father
in refusing and postponing what medical authorities insisted was a critical amputation and debridement of dead tissues for their two and one-half year old child. The child had entered
the hospital at the hands of his parents. His initial time there resulted in significant medical intervention, intervention which occurred with the full support of the parents. Although
the parents in this case had been cooperative for the first ten days of the boys hospitalization, however, a visit from the familys minister had convinced the parents to use
prayer in order that God himself would intervene and restore life to the devitalized tissues. Ultimately, social services had to intervene in this case. At the threat of
loosing custody of their child the parents finally agreed to the procedures being recommended by the medical profession. The case outlined in "Faith-based
Decisions: Parents Who Refuse Appropriate Care for Their Child" opens a whole gamut of ethical and legal questions. Robert D. Orr, MD, CM contended that the parents ultimate refusal/postponement
of the recommended procedures resulted in the "increased patient suffering, prolonged hospital stay, and increased expenses". As Orr pointed out, however, the case has even greater societal considerations in
that it emphasizes three very important issues: "(a) parental responsibility and discretion;
(b) professional and societal protection of vulnerable children; and (c) freedom of religion"
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