Baby Joseph: Coming Home. Canadian Doctors: Death Panel Using the Courts?

While we feel a geat deal of empathy for the parents, we held that their view was not in any way realistic, Joseph's parents were blinded by their obvious love for their child. 

Justice Helen Rady

Ontario Consent & Capacity Board

Fox News brings focus on an issue where the Canadian Health Care System has given up on a citizen.  'Blinded" by love for their child?  To Judge Rady, I can only say:  "NO!!!"   Jesus Christ, NO!"

This Family is in no way BLINDED.  They SEE.  As a Bureaucrat, hemmed in by your status and custom, it is you who are blinded, who is denied by obstacles to your sensibility, to honor this family.

In the United States, where Medical Choices are not bound by Socialized Medicine's bottom line directive, Baby Joseph is welcome, has previously been "treated" for his seemingly hopeless condition, and has - by his father's testimony - benefited therefrom.  Yet the Province of Ontario has placed the infant under round-the-clock surveillance preventing the family from taking him home "to die" or to be transported to a Michigan hospital where his pro-active care can be resumed.

I am stricken by the similarity to this case that our own Betty Jean went through to save the life of her daughter, Louisa.  Aside from the "Death Panel" documentary being thus borne out by the Canadian Health Care Apparatus, it is clear to right-thinking people that the Judicial System should not be in the business of advocating or expediting any patient's demise.  No family, unwilling to consent to such a choice, should face this as a business matter.  As long as they have life, patients holding on have reason, and must, therefore be connected to their loved ones IN THIS WORLD.

To any of you 'single payer' providers and government-controlled health care advocates, I can only ask this:  How is it that the Family is "blinded" by their love for their child, but the System grinding to such a black & white, faithless decision isn't utterly without standing in the matter in the first place?

Word to the Wise:   Nothing is more certain than the likelihood that Joseph will survive, more-over, thrive in the United States where the medical teams who undertake his care are driven neither by threat of arrest nor by cynical expediency.  To this family, every moment of this baby's life is a gift from God.  To anybody who might find themselves in Baby Joseph's position:  Step Back and Rethink this while you posess the capacity to think for yourselves.   

Lost Sunday

Unshakeable cold has grippe on me, yet I know if I can just drive myself to get up and going... but I need cough syrup, decongestant and rest.  Yesterday I thought it was allergies because I wasn't sick, but today, ick.

Lots of issues await the new Congress, our own work.  Tomorrow resumes the work year, and I go forward with the EYES-EARS of Angels.  Yammer & babble, disruption of daily life order and talking over each other preventing any progress towards middle ground. 

I get above it with forgiveness.  Taking higher ground to witness and accept, now the discipline evolves to eliminate negative emotions from my processing of information.  1-2-11 Accepting what is, realizing it, understanding.  For me the way people "work" is different from professional people with a shared company mission.  I get it.  Politics isn't about what's best for the Country; it's about what's in it for the political.  So move onjtu a working professional, forget about EVER getting results working with "the political people."

You cannot run the government like a business.  The Government is a "lid" to be kept on the crazies that prevent things from getting out of control.   But putting "controlling people" in government just triggers revolt: the thing we don't want.  All we ask of our elected officials is to preserve a mechanism by which we can persue redress when it is our conviction that we've been wronged. 

A business "makes money."  A business, if it is to thrive, invites interaction, promotes itself and desires to expand the numbers of those they serve.  A business, if it is legitimate, seeks to get production out of employees and employ only as many as are needed to serve that customer base.  Does that sound anything at all like what we have in Government?

Likewise Medicine & Health Care doesn't qualify as business.  Advances in medicine haave so extended our life expectancy that our "Government" cannot keep up with all our healthy, wise adults.  Aside from Defense, the only growth in the Economy is in the Medical Sector.  The Bank-Busting risk to financial stability is the health care to which we have access.  Both my husband and my son's father-in-law survived health issues that would have been unlikely twenty years ago. 

American Business needs to take the same approach to evolving technology to a level of practice that mirrors what we find today in Hospitals.  First class care with a mind to maximizing income opportunities.  Some move at a pace that blurrs to the eye of the average person.  Some work together seamlessly, selflessly and with the utmost skill and great attitude.  And some just roam around labarynth - like hospital halls collecting huge paychecks and doing nothing of substance, but nobody asks. 

Hummin' performing providers at the top, hackin' slackers at the middle and "customers" who cluelessly demand services at the bottom.  Still smoking?  Driving recklessly? Not eating right, getting exercise?

Belly up, boys.  We had the climate change O/C writers predicting our planet was freezing in the 70's.  Dire predictions and warnings about the economic clash were forecast as early as Spring of '07, yet when the Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy, who could have known that the over-reaction would foster conditions that would prompt the taxpayers to fund bonus billions to the crooks who caused it? 

Do your best and trust that things will be good.  Police your immediate colleagues, stay alert to things that "seem out of place" and expect a great 2011.  Blender: the elements of all you can be are directly in front of you.  Take it in with positive expectancy and know that YOU are the process that makes it work, and you make it work WELL because you're great!