"Does the US have a new Terri Schiavo?"

"It’s always best to wait for both sides of a story to emerge. But a New York Times report makes Georgetown University Medical Center and the US health system look quite heartless. After the children of a brain-damaged Rwandan migrant without health insurance could not pay for hospitalisation or nursing care, her feeding tubes were removed and she is slowly starving to death in a Maryland nursing home.

There will certainly be further developments in this breaking news. Not only is it a case study in medical ethics, but it will also give ammunition to opponents of President Obama’s healthcare program. They will surely use it as an example of what 'death panels' could do. Stay tuned."

Michael Cook
Editor
BioEdge