Post #202,458
4/8/05 11:21:53 AM
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Sorry to bring this back
But the slippery slope has began.
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85 year-old Mae Margourik of LaGrange, Georgia, is currently being deprived of nutrition and hydration at the request of her granddaughter, Beth Gaddy. Mrs. Margourik suffered an aortic dissection 2 weeks ago and was hospitalized. Though her doctors have said that she is not terminally ill, Ms. Gaddy declared that she held medical power of attorney for Mae, and had her transferred to the LaGrange Hospice. Later investigation revealed that Ms. Gaddy did not in fact have such power of attorney. Furthermore, Mae's Living Will provides that nutrition and hydration are to be withheld only if she is comatose or vegetative. Mae is in neither condition. Neither is her condition terminal.
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Post #202,459
4/8/05 11:29:58 AM
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clear case of where a lawyer would help
probate judge does not confer guardianship, he ruled in error. Common sense dictates that georgia laws must be followed.
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bill
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Post #202,605
4/9/05 10:33:43 AM
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Not sure I see a slippery slope here...
Ms. Gaddy declared that she held medical power of attorney for Mae, and had her transferred to the LaGrange Hospice. Later investigation revealed that Ms. Gaddy did not in fact have such power of attorney. Furthermore, Mae's Living Will provides that nutrition and hydration are to be withheld only if she is comatose or vegetative. Mae is in neither condition. Ms. Gaddy doesn't have any say in Mae's condition. Mae has a Living Will to state what she would want when she wants it. Where's the slippery slope? (For that matter, why did they listen to Ms. Gaddy in the first place?)
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Post #202,831
4/11/05 9:34:13 AM
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I think you second question answers your first
"Where's the slippery slope? (For that matter, why did they listen to Ms. Gaddy in the first place?)"
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Post #202,852
4/11/05 11:20:38 AM
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That's not a slippery slope
that's incompetence, plain and simple.
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Post #202,606
4/9/05 10:49:08 AM
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It's a little strange that there aren't other sources.
Google only lists about 9 articles on this, in my searches, and almost all take the position that the grandaughter is evil and the judge was wrong. Why is that? I can't find anything about Probate Judge Donald Boyd's orders on the web. The closest I've found that gives his side is [link|http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=61478|here]: Mullinax and Magouirk\ufffds granddaughter, Beth Gaddy, fought in court over who should be her guardian.
Probate Judge Donald Boyd appointed Gaddy.
Mullinax says Gaddy has withheld nourishment and fought further treatment saying Magouirk needed to be with Jesus. He also charged that the judge went along though Magouirk was hardly comatose.
\ufffdThis woman has a lot more years to live,\ufffd Mullinax, the woman\ufffds nephew, said. \ufffdShe recognized us and she looked at us, and said, please, please help me go home.\ufffd
Asked what he thought that to mean, Mullinax said, \ufffdIt sure didn\ufffdt mean home to Jesus, and it sure didn't mean starve me to death.\ufffd
Judge Boyd called Mullinax's charges completely false and said all relatives agreed to let three doctors decide what was next for Magouirk. He said that everyone was happy with the compromise.
\ufffdThey were hugging necks, and, as far as I knew, the family was fine,\ufffd the judge said.
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Bloggers from the Schiavo case heated up the Internet and swamped the judge's phones and computer with what he said are wildly false charges.
\ufffdI've even been accused several times of murder and I've had, I would say, close to a hundred e-mails,\ufffd Boyd said.
The CEO of the West Georgia Health System told 11Alive News, "No patient at our hospice is denied food or water." I think you need to be a little more skeptical, Ark. Cheers, Scott.
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Post #202,701
4/10/05 2:27:53 PM
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More info...
A LaGrange probate judge on Monday ordered three doctors, including one UAB cardiologist, to decide her future. They decided late Friday that the heart condition was treatable and had her airlifted Saturday morning, Mullinax said.
Mullinax said he is thrilled that his aunt is at UAB receiving care.
"Hospice is only for the dying, and my aunt has many more years to live," he said. "A crime was being committed by having a person in a hospice who was not terminally ill. I hope that this never ever happens again."
Grandson Michael Shane Magouirk, contacted in LaGrange Saturday night, declined to comment. [link|http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1113124997294560.xml| Source ] Shrug. It might be a huge hoax. I don't know the Birmingham News at all.
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Post #202,828
4/11/05 9:14:42 AM
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Sounds like a copy cat
Trying to get in the spotlight riding on the coat tails of Terri S.
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Post #202,853
4/11/05 11:21:13 AM
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Yeah, but who's the one trying to throw the spotlight?
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Post #202,860
4/11/05 11:51:09 AM
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Re: Yeah, but who's the one trying to throw the spotlight?
The the grand daughter
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Post #202,872
4/11/05 12:59:26 PM
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Are you sure about that?
What I'm asking is, who's trying to publicise it, and why? After all, a lot of people are going "see, see, this is the slippery slope started by Schiavo", when what's really going on is (perhaps) incompetent administration not bothering to check bona fides before taking action... I think the real danger is the situation where the hospital (or other health institution) can use someone like the granddaughter as an excuse to cut costs without having to cut billing, leading to less than due diligence on their spadework on the actual power to make decisions.
To wit: you can't accuse the judgement in the Schiavo case to cover a situation where someone is lying about PoA etc and the doctor and institution don't bother doing even the most rudimentary followup to find out if this is in fact the case.
So, who is trying to publicise this, and why?
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