RxOnco
05-21-2009, 09:10 AM
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090521/D98AC4IO0.html
"SLEEPY EYE, Minn. (AP) - A courtroom clash between medicine and faith took a criminal turn, with police around the country on the lookout Wednesday for a Minnesota mother who fled with her cancer-stricken 13-year-old son rather than consent to chemotherapy..."
I'm sure this topic has come up before with previous cases. I'm just wondering everyone thinks about this. Should the mother have the right to determine which route of treatment her child receives?
I'm a Board Certified Oncology Pharmacist so I've got my own opinions on which would do more good. I obviously think this boy could greatly benefit from chemotherapy and possibly radiation. However, I'm not too keen on a judge saying that the parents have to put their child through it. It is, after all, a very nasty course of treatment.
"SLEEPY EYE, Minn. (AP) - A courtroom clash between medicine and faith took a criminal turn, with police around the country on the lookout Wednesday for a Minnesota mother who fled with her cancer-stricken 13-year-old son rather than consent to chemotherapy..."
I'm sure this topic has come up before with previous cases. I'm just wondering everyone thinks about this. Should the mother have the right to determine which route of treatment her child receives?
I'm a Board Certified Oncology Pharmacist so I've got my own opinions on which would do more good. I obviously think this boy could greatly benefit from chemotherapy and possibly radiation. However, I'm not too keen on a judge saying that the parents have to put their child through it. It is, after all, a very nasty course of treatment.