Disability Health Disparities Based on Negative Quality of Life Judgments Must Be Challenged
…will be non-discriminatory. Another increasingly frequent scenario is the “rush to judgment” in response to a new brain injury. Some physicians are slapping “persistent vegetative state” diagnoses on people long before neurological literature would say it’s “appropriate”, and then using that diagnosis as an argument for withholding life-sustaining treatment. One such case involved a young girl, Haleigh Poutre. Physicians argued for withdrawing lif…