Sick baby's treatment 'should continue', High Court told

[mike_field]

Another Charlie Gard situation sadly.
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A mother and father are fighting a High Court battle to stop their eight-month-old son's life support machine being switched off. Isaiah Hasstrup is brain damaged and dependent on a ventilator to keep him alive at King's College Hospital, London.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-41944958

 

[Pride of Lions]

What harm would an independent assessor giving his/her opinion?

Perhaps doctors at Kings College Hospital could finish up with egg on the faces, so don't like the idea.

 

[mike_field]

Does make you wonder, hospital makes the decision and it instantly goes to somebody at the regulator or the BMA or whichever one is best placed to rule given the circs of the case to serve as a second opinion.

Think of the money spent on courts when legally trained 'judges with no medical experience' have to try and get their heads around it knowing a life is in their hands in a way it would never otherwise be.

Just a nonsense.