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Doctor put study first, Jensen family says
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Finally, chemotherapy, and all adjuvant cancer treatment, is no guarantee. Chemotherapy simply increases the chance of a patient being subsequently cancer free. Obviously, some patients, like Parker, get lucky and end up surviving without chemotherapy, but that doesn't mean that administering chemotherapy would have been the wrong choice. If you have 100 children like Parker you end up saving the lives of 40-50 of them with chemotherapy given post-surgery, although a small percentage of them (like Parker) can be cured with surgery alone.
They are the best in their specialties and I believe anyone that goes into pediatrics has the patients best interest at heart. If the parents already knew how to treat the problem why did they bring him to PCMC in the first place? It is so easy to point a finger at the doctor for "taking the parents rights away" however from my own experience in the medical field many children would be better off if the parents did not get all the say.
Good luck to the Jensen family. It's uplifting to see people back down. They should be compensated for this state fiasco.
What the heck is this state thinking?!?
What is next? Throw my wife in jail because she refuses an epidural during labor? HOW DARE SHE!
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I support any parental rights over and above that of the State other than out right abuse of course.
To the Jensen family: you have our full support and hope you prevail now!