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2005-11-15 Down Under

Disabled Ozzie Woman Sues Dr For 'Wrongful Life'

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Posted by .com 2005-11-15 07:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It's not as if she doesn't have the ability to fix the problem herself.

Posted by 2b 2005-11-15 14:07|| 2005-11-15 14:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Parents named as co-respondents.

Posted by Clomoling Sleager5762 2005-11-15 14:45|| 2005-11-15 14:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Trying to get at insurance money from either the obstratrician of the parents. Once I had a case where I (at the direction of my boss) sued a mother on behalf of an unborn child (who lived and later was born) for injuries in a car accident. The only way to get any money was to sue the mother. However, we failed as in Illinois, you can't bring that kind of suit. Thank god; that one made me feel kind of dirty.

Posted by Mark E. 2005-11-15 15:24|| 2005-11-15 15:24|| Front Page Top

#4 "Alongside Harriton's suit is a similar claim from a 5-year-old Australian boy who was born with permanent brain damage and cerebral palsy after doctors failed to detect a blood disorder present in his father's system."

Great. Another step toward Brave New World.

We already have medical and life insurance companies wanting genetic info on people for risk profiles. This will only create more types of insurers who want this info. Once enough governments (esp. EU, Canada, and other tranzi-types or tyrannies like China) get an incentive to use this info, will mandatory screenings and abortions be far behind?

/Is my paranoia showing?

Posted by xbalanke 2005-11-15 15:56|| 2005-11-15 15:56|| Front Page Top

#5 Shoot her. End of problem.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-11-15 16:15|| 2005-11-15 16:15|| Front Page Top

#6 A staple current affairs shows here in Oz is kids with terminal diseases or severe disablement who are being kept alive for a little longer at enormous cost and drain on the healthcare system. The message is always the same - isn't this wonderful.

Just once, I'd like to hear someone say 'Maybe we should spend this money on treatable, curable and preventable diseases, or use it to reduce the waiting times for routine operations that allow people to once again become productive members of society.'

Posted by phil_b 2005-11-15 16:36|| 2005-11-15 16:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Oh baby, phil_b - you're cruisin' for a bruisin' thinking all logical like that, lol!

I usually phrase it a little more indirectly, using baseball terminology:
"We sent Darwin to the showers much too soon. Why? Cuz we could. Now we're fucked."

Posted by .com 2005-11-15 16:42|| 2005-11-15 16:42|| Front Page Top

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