Examples Of Who Should Have The Right To Make Major Medical Decisions

Doctors vs Families -Who Should Have the Right to Make Major Medical Decisions?
When it comes to a loved one being on life support, it is an emotional experience to go through. It is very heartbreaking to see them laying there in the hospital bed so helpless and lifeless as they are surrounded by doctors and nurses trying to save them from dying. On top of that you are having to prepare yourself and your family to say the possible forever goodbye to them. With keeping in mind that doctor will tell you have make one of the hardest decision of your life. Deciding if you want to see your love one live on a machine with tubes thought their bodies or if want to pull the plug so death can come to take its course. Many people have different views when come to life support some think you should let the hospital do everything they can to save your loved one others think you should let death come take its course. In, the article, ‘When Living is Fate Worse Than Death” by Christine Mitchell, her thesis states that all major medical decisions should left to the doctors and not the families. She feels that the hospital staff knows what is best for the
Unfortunately, she also had a portion of her brain growing in a sack on the side of her head. Her parents wanted to do everything they could to save her dying. They took her from Haiti in to the U.S. to different hospitals to help her. Charlotte’s parents were full of hope that their beautiful little girl would pull though this sickness and that she be okay. Although the doctors and nurses did everything they could to tried save Charlotte from dying but everything they have tried sadly failed. The author felt that her parents and the hospital should have done more to save Charlotte from a painful