{"id":2531,"date":"2006-04-28T11:02:54","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T11:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/andrea-clark-is-moving.html"},"modified":"2006-04-28T11:02:54","modified_gmt":"2006-04-28T11:02:54","slug":"andrea-clark-is-moving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/04\/andrea-clark-is-moving.html","title":{"rendered":"Andrea Clark is moving"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Houston woman whose ventilator a Houston hospital sought to remove is being moved to Chicago<\/a><\/p>\n

Wesley Smith on the case in yesterday’s NRO<\/a><\/p>\n

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Illustrating the level of hardball some hospitals play against patients and families, the Clarke family’s lawyer Jerri Ward told me that St. Luke’s agreed to pay the $14,806 transportation costs to transfer Clarke to a hospital in Illinois \u2014 more than 1,000 miles away \u2014 if the decision to transfer is made on Thursday (4\/27). If the family doesn’t decide until Friday, the hospital will pay only one-half of the cost of transportation. Thereafter, it would pay nothing.<\/p>\n

Cases like Andrea Clarke’s could not be more important. If the principle is ever established that doctors, hospitals, and faceless ethics committees can dictate who can live and who must die, the already weakening faith of the American people in their health-care system will be seriously undermined and the door will be thrown wide-open to medical decision-making based on discriminatory hierarchies of human worth. As German physician Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland wrote presciently in 1806, "It is not up to [the doctor] whether . . . life is happy or unhappy, worthwhile or not, and should he incorporate these perspectives into his trade . . . the doctor could well become the most dangerous person in the state." <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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