RE: What path for Charlie Gard?
July 15, 2017 at 3:04 pm
(This post was last modified: July 15, 2017 at 3:05 pm by henryp.)
(July 15, 2017 at 2:40 pm)Pandæmonium Wrote:(July 15, 2017 at 1:13 pm)wallym Wrote: Utilitarian health care is certainly an alternative, and would solve a lot of problems in terms of health care expenditures. The implications can get a little uncomfortable going down that road though.
But all this seems like, is they want to take the kid out of the hospital, and go to america for an exam. I assume it'd require some medical transfer of undetermined cost. And it's not clear how it's being paid for. That doesn't seem like it'd be running a tab in the millions, though.
You'd be surprised at the cost. Just running that equipment at great ormond street hospital + the legal expenses are probably running into the hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Regardless, he has a mitochondrial disease and advanced brain damage. There ain't no coming back from that. His parents have been sold a dream packaged as genuine hope. I can't blame them for wanting to try, but the reality is that any hope is misplaced at this point.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/...duce-new2/
Reading this, it sounds like a long shot. But it also sounds like it's not some make believe treatment, either. I'd also guess that there would be scientific benefit to attempting this.
http://people.com/human-interest/us-doct...rlie-gard/
And the Doctor's resume is pretty stout. It's not some bumpkin Kentucky pediatrician who is doing it for Jesus.
