Questions for the Day

Questions for the day regarding brain injuries

Why are families not informed about the availability of Therapeutic Hypothermia to decrease swelling in the brain and prevent further damage?

Why are patients not transferred to the nearest hospital where Therapeutic Hypothermia is available?

When does ending life become murder?

When signing papers to let a patient die, what percentage of brain damage crosses the line between letting go and committing murder?

Why do life insurance companies pay on policies when a patient is not determined to be brain dead?

When does pushing families to end life become conspiracy to commit murder?

Why do hospitals not give families of patients with an acquired brain injury (ABI) fully informed information about resources in the community for brain injury rehabilitation?

Why are families not informed by hospital staff about the existence of brain injury certified case manager to help families make decisions regarding rehabilitation and recovery?

When does dumping patients into sub-standard nursing homes against family wishes become kidnapping?

When does forcing non-custodial family members to sign financial papers for admittance in nursing homes, when the patient was dumped there by uncaring hospitals, become extortion?

Why do brain injury rehabilitation hospitals gain millions of federal dollars each year have the right to deny ABIs rehabilitation based on some hidden quota of 35%?

When does withholding rehabilitation for patients with an acquired brain injury become morally reprehensible enough to society to demand change?