I don't like doctors, in the main. I've encountered a very few decent ones who seem to give a shit and haven't been entirely brainwashed. The rest have been utter turds, some so obnoxious I'd have punched their lights out if I was a single guy. But leaving my personal experiences aside (and the experiences of the vast majority of people I've spoken to on such matters), this particular case is a specific example of the supreme arrogance and all too common incompetence of this profession.
Read this page:
http://www.gosh.nhs.uk/frequently-as...ard-court-case
The incompetent (not having or showing the necessary skills to do something successfully) (in this instance) staff at GOSH were unable to provide any solution other than to terminate the life of the child. Interestingly, they have this right whereas citizens do not, but that's another matter and another case of the state and its agents behaving unlawfully. Okay, so they can't be expected to cure every disease or condition that comes their way. But, by their own admission, in this case they had no competency to deal with the problem, if we assume death is not the desired outcome.
The parents said thanks, we'll take the kid to the States where somebody claims they can help. We'll pay. So it's not a matter of cash, as is so often the case with our corporate, for profit, "healthcare" system. Whether this third party could help or not is irrelevant. The relevancy is in who gets to make the decision. Even when it comes to the life of a child and when the state can't preserve that life, the court here rules that the child is owned by the state. In an act of the deepest black comedy it declares the doctors, who have already admitted they can do fuck all (they are INCOMPETENT by their own admission), KNOW what's best for the child. How can they possibly know that, when they've already concluded there's no medical remedy and have therefore (you would think) removed themselves as a factor? So what are they deciding on? Personal family issues? The arrogant fucks. We can't help, so instead we'll kidnap your dying child. It's the most ridiculous assumption and yet they managed to bring their kangaroo case to the kangaroo court and win. Of course they did. What's really at stake here in a wider sense is who "owns" the child. This ruling leaves no uncertainty and the medical profession has assisted vigorously, under the unshakable belief it knows what is best - for anyone and everyone I assume. They read books for 10 years and now they get to explain to a family what dignity is? Can you imagine a more refined form of arrogance?
This is another in a long list of reasons why it is essential and urgent to get rid of government and its drones.