Medical Non-Compliance Equals Murder
A study done at Ohio State University published by the American Medical Association in 2008 showed a rate of 48 percent non-compliance with Pediatric Cancer Regimen with depressed patients. There would have been a national outcry of rage if those families had been tried for attempted murder.
A similar situation exists with Kristin LaBrie, a mother of an autistic child who is being treated for depression. The jury convicted her of the murder of her son Jeremy Fraser because she did not give all of the medications ordered for his non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma. The chance that his death was caused by non-compliance (85% - 90 % survival rate with full compliance of all 5 stages of chemotherapy) is as high as the chance that diagnosis of Leukemia (1 in 10 patients develop a second cancer within 10 years after receiving chemotherapy) was actually caused by the chemotherapy prescribed by the doctor.
http://a-nurses-world.blogspot.com/2011/04/medical-non-compliance-murder-in.html
- Category: Family, US Politics
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LaBrie Found Guilty of Murder
Kristen A. LaBrie was found guilty on all counts — attempted murder, permitting serious bodily injury to a disabled person, permitting substantial injury to a child and reckless endangerment of a child, said Steve O’Connell, spokesman for the Essex District Attorney’s Office. The Lawrence Massachusetts jury agreed with the Assistant DA’s argument that withholding chemotherapy medications from her autistic son who had non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma caused her son to die of leukemia in 2009. The defense attorney admitted that LaBrie knowingly withheld her son’s medications, but said she did so only because of their painful side effects. Lawyers batted the fact around that she had been treated for depression with Celexa and saw a social worker.
http://margaretturley.com/labrie-found-guilty-of-attempted-murder-by-compassion.htm
