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RSS FeedsBrampton woman on life support is moving, is bleeding, but is dead, doctors say. Her family fights on: DiManno
(The Star Fashion & Style)

 
 

19 october 2017 02:51:17

 
Brampton woman on life support is moving, is bleeding, but is dead, doctors say. Her family fights on: DiManno
(The Star Fashion & Style)
 


She moves. She menstruates.Or she doesn’t move, not as a cognitive motion, a message sent from her brain — despite dramatic video that shows Taquisha McKitty bending her limbs, stretching her toes, rolling her head.Nearly a month after the Toronto area woman was declared legally dead.And the blood, well that proves nothing.“I am aware that there was vaginal bleeding,” Dr. Andrew Healey told a hearing in Brampton Superior Court on Wednesday. “Nobody knows if that was menstrual.”Yet neither do they know, definitively, it wasn’t.Cadavers don’t bleed, do they?Yet Healey, when pressed on his answer to the menstrual questions, responded with palpable tetchiness. “What part of my sentence do you not understand?”If a month passes and she bleeds — menstruates again — would that be convincing? A month might not be granted to McKitty, depending on how a judge decides.But they — the doctors aligned against McKitty’s desperate family — would have us believe that their interpretation of “whole brain death” is correct. How could they possibly be wrong, those physicians, who signed off on a death certificate on Sept. 20?Several injunctions have been granted by the court since then, allowing the family to pursue their case, an interim ruling which has kept McKitty on a ventilator.The ventilator, argued Healey — critical care physician and division head at Brampton Civic Hospital — is keeping McKitty alive, or the illusion of alive.Her exhalation is a passive response to the air being pumped into her lungs, no different than a balloon flattening when the air is released, an analogy belittled by family lawyer Hugh Scher.“She’s breathing now,” said Scher.Henley: “No, she is not.“The ventilator is doing all the work of breathing and the expelling is a passive reaction,” Healey insisted under cross-examination.It’s a circular argu ...


 
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