Showing posts with label catholic hospital. Show all posts
Showing posts with label catholic hospital. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Nurse Jackie’s Season Five Finale – Jackie Performs Last Rites (Extreme Unction) on an Aged Dying Gay Man



Edie Falco and Stephen Wallem  -  Nurse Jackie and Nurse Thor


Amid the work politics of a Catholic hospital Emergency Room in mid-town Manhattan and Nurse Jackie’s ongoing battle to stay sober from her addictions for one year, in comes the elderly patient of Wally – “Wally, an 80 year old gay man with advanced liver cancer is admitted into the hospital. Thor instantly gravitates toward him.-“

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Catholic Hospital in Colorado Malpractice Defense – “Fetuses Are Not People”




Once again, Catholic morality is a kaleidoscope like  measure of convenience and or the bottom line.

His patient died at the hospital less than an hour after she arrived and her twins died in her womb. 
After Stoghill's death, Lori's husband Jerry filed a wrongful death suit against St. Thomas Moore Hospital in Cañon City, claiming that Dr. Staples should have at least instructed ER personnel to perform an emergency C-section. 
Jerry's suit states that the hospital's negligence resulted the deaths of three individuals — his wife, and his two unborn but post-viability sons. 
In response, Catholic Health Initiatives, the nonprofit that runs St. Thomas Moore and 170 other healthcare facilities, claimed that Jerry Stoghill has no grounds to sue them for the loss of three lives, as unborn people aren't technically "persons" under Colorado law.

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