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The family of 13-year-old Jahi McMath is fighting to challenge a California court decision ruling her deceased due to brain death. The family’s attorney, Christopher Dolan, has recently stated that McMath is showing signs that she has regained consciousness.
“Jahi is doing so much better physically,” Jahi’s mother, Nailah Winkfield said
A few months ago, Jahi’s mom and dad gave an interview to the Terry Schaivo Foundation, insisting that their daughter is improving.
Late last year, 13-year-old Jahi had gone to Oakland Children’s Hospital for a tonsillectomy, but there were complications post-surgery. She was declared brain dead. Her family has fought that declaration and eventually moved her to a hospital in New Jersey that would keep her on life support.
“There’s no evidence that patients who are brain dead can ever recover,” David Magnus said. “There’s no recovery from death.”
David Magnus is from the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics and says the attorney’s claim is unprecedented. He says he wants to see proof; Independent proof.
“I would think that they would, at a minimum, need an independent, court appointed competent, qualified neurologist to verify that all the previous independent neurologists who have done an evaluation did so in error,” Mangus said.
Agencies/Canadajournal
