Doctor who testified to keep brain-dead teen on ventilator is a religious quack.

[Barack_America]

9. Brain death IS legal death in CA (*rant*)

As in many other states. 6 physicians have now examined her and declared her to be legally dead. Scans have demonstrated 0 blood flow going to her cortex and brain stem.

She is dead.

Furthermore, she did not have a "tonsillectomy" as is widely reported. She had a much more involved and risky procedure to address sleep apnea. Sleep apnea likely caused largely by her significant obesity, which in-turn almost certainly complicated her operative and post-operative course. 13 year olds do not achieve this level of obesity without the help of their parents.

So, in essence, what you have here is a family that allowed a child to reach levels of obesity that caused a significant side effect (sleep apnea). They then chose an elective surgery to correct the sleep apnea (which has no greater than a 50% success rate for obese children, based on limited studies). Now, after a tragic post-operative course, they are demanding all manner of abuse be done to her corpse. Her ENT docs share blame in this case, but I cannot get over the horrible decisions the parents have made for this child. I have no doubt they loved her, but holy hell, have they made wrong decisions for her at almost every pass.