[BartSimpson]

herbie herbie:

Meh. They're doctors, what would they know?
Parenthood = more brains & total ownership of prodigy. Ask any anti-vaxxer or JW who's kid needs a blood transfusion.

It's not the parents who want the child to die.

Also, don't forget that the majority of the anti-vaxxers are the liberal/left holistic medicine believers.

And then there's people like myself who don't object to vaccines, I just prefer the vaccines that don't have any mercury in them. Since such vaccines are now widely available I don't see any reason to risk having a known neurotoxin injected into my body.

[bootlegga]

JaredMilne JaredMilne:

Okay, what I don't get here is how this is the doctors' decision to make. You'd think that the responsibility of this choice would lie with Charlie's parents.

Whether or not the treatment would have worked, you'd think that the parents are and should be the ones making the call. The doctors may not like it, but they shouldn't be able to prevent Charlie's parents from making that choice, much less refuse to let them take him home.

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

Yes Jared, and that's actually the central point of the objection.

Ultimately, the doctors are accountable to only one person - the patient - and in this case, prolonging his pain and agony so his parents get a few more days/weeks with him isn't fair to Charlie.

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

Odd, how everybody above you complaining about this missed it.

FTFY

[N_Fiddledog]

"The cows" will understand why people might want the right to a second opinion rather than a mandatory death sentence without hope for themselves or their children before you do.