Winnipeg, Canada – Family members fighting to keep their 84-year-old father on life support were back in court yesterday hoping to convince a judge to hear new evidence in the case.
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Samuel Golubchuk, an Orthodox Jew, has been on life support at Grace General Hospital since early November. Early last month, doctors advised Golubchuk's family he would be taken off life support, as he had only minimal brain activity, could not communicate and showed no hope of improving.
But on Dec. 11, Justice Perry Schulman approved a temporary injunction ordering that life support be maintained until he had reached a decision in the case.
Yesterday, Neil Kravetsky, the family's lawyer, argued Schulman should reopen the case so he can consider the affidavits of two American doctors who examined Gol ubchuk's med ical charts and concluded he is not dying and is even showing signs of improvement.
A lawyer for the hospital said the issue before the court isn't whether other doctors have a different opinion about the case but whether Golubchuk's doctors have the right to make the decision they did.
The judge said he hopes to have a decision on the affidavits in the next couple of weeks. [globeandmail]
This particular case seems to be a result of the Canadian health system – for anyone who thinks we should replicate anything here in the States. They need to make room for more patients, so these arrogant doctors think they can choose who should stay around, and who’s “just taking up space”.
You have to watch doctors= they illegaly took off life support on my mother by a nurse and we caught them-a doctor said to me were not here to prolong life-a Rav said to me they are chashud in retzicha