25-04-2018, 08:21 AM
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Re: Is it time to let Alfie go ?
Originally Posted by AnnieS
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I haven't followed this case but I don't understand why we put severely ill children through such suffering. I don't believe anyone should be forced to suffer in such a way but a baby or young child has no choice. Is this really the life Alfie would want for himself?
25-04-2018, 09:25 AM
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Re: Is it time to let Alfie go ?
Originally Posted by summer
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I understand he is now breathing on his own, I feel terrible saying this but if it's true his brain is so badly damaged I hope he just slips away.
25-04-2018, 09:44 AM
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Re: Is it time to let Alfie go ?
Originally Posted by Twink55
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I think you are just saying what most people think Summer
25-04-2018, 04:48 PM
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This poor little chap can not see, hear, taste, swallow and is basically a vegerable. I saw an interview with some of those protesting outside Alder Hey Hospital, where one individual said that now he is breathing without a ventilator that there is a chance he will be cured. The ignorance was breathtaking, knowing more than the consultants treating him?I feel so sorry for other parents of very sick children who have to run the gauntlet of this raucous mob ever day. I had a friend who had a child in Alder Hey and I hate the thought she had to endure that.
25-04-2018, 04:52 PM
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Re: Is it time to let Alfie go ?
Originally Posted by CeeCee
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This poor little chap can not see, hear, taste, swallow and is basically a vegerable. I saw an interview with some of those protesting outside Alder Hey Hospital, where one individual said that now he is breathing without a ventilator that there is a chance he will be cured. The ignorance was breathtaking, knowing more than the consultants treating him?I feel so sorry for other parents of very sick children who have to run the gauntlet of this raucous mob ever day. I had a friend who had a child in Alder Hey and I hate the thought she had to endure that.
25-04-2018, 07:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Artangel
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I can’t believe Alfie’s father, 21 year old Tom Evans wants to prosecute the doctors for conspiracy to murder.Why couldn’t the parents have kept all this private, instead of making it into a circus?
The judge criticised the "malign hand" of one of the family's advisers, law student Pavel Stroilov, who had, the court heard, been party to Mr Evans lodging a private prosecution of Alder Hey Hospital doctors, allegedly for murder.
A law student for pity's sakes.
The judge said the hospital had provided "world class" care for the child.
I should imagine the doctors at the hospital have been thoroughly upset and even frightened by the crowds and publicity surrounding this case.
25-04-2018, 09:24 PM
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Over the past fortnight, hospital chair Sir David Henshaw said, staff had endured a "barrage" of abuse."All of us feel deeply for Alfie and his whole family and we continue to do everything we can to support them as best we can, just as we have for the last 17 months".
But, they said, staff had recently been the subject of "unprecedented personal abuse that has been hard to bear".
The hospital has seen several protests in recent weeks, and police have investigated claims patients and staff were intimidated.
Sir David and Ms Shepherd said the previous fortnight had been "a very difficult time."
"As an organisation, we have endured attacks upon our motivation, our professionalism and our ethics," they said.
They described the requirement for a "significant police presence" at the hospital as "completely unacceptable".
Staff had also received "a barrage of highly abusive and threatening language and behaviour that has shocked us all", they said.
"Worse still, patients and visitors to Alder Hey have also reported abuse."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...yside-43900571
(I've taken the easy way out and just copied and pasted the above. I'll have to shut up now or I'll let rip).
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