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From: deplorable.redneck@nytimes.com

NBC, so fucked up they can't even get a headline straight.

Blacks, so intelligent they know more than doctors...

Mother had refused to accept her daughter was brain dead, but
said the girl died after surgery last week.

Congratulations American taxpayers.  You got five years of
medical bills to finish paying plus funeral expenses.

SAN FRANCISCO — A girl at the center of the medical and
religious debate over brain death has died after surgery in New
Jersey, her mother said Thursday.

Nailah Winkfield said doctors declared her daughter Jahi McMath
dead on June 22 from excessive bleeding and liver failure after
an operation to treat an intestinal issue.

McMath was declared dead in December 2013 when she was 13 after
suffering irreversible brain damage during routine surgery in
California to remove her tonsils. A coroner signed a death
certificate. Several specialists concurred after neurological
tests.

Winkfield refused to accept the conclusion. She said her
Christian beliefs compelled her to fight for continued care for
her daughter, who she said showed signs of life through toe
wriggles and finger movements.

Winkfield flew her daughter to New Jersey, where she has
remained on life support and received care in the state that
accommodates religions that don’t recognize brain death.

“Jahi wasn’t brain dead or any kind of dead,” Winkfield said.
“She was a girl with a brain injury and she deserved to be cared
for like any other child who had a brain injury.”

McMath’s case drew national attention amid the debate over brain
death and religious beliefs. Conservative religious groups
rallied behind Winkfield and helped raise money for McMath’s
continued care.

Winkfield said she has quit her job, sold her home in Oakland
and used savings to pay for McMath’s care in New Jersey. The
state’s Medicaid program and donations have also contributed to
the girl’s care.

“These last four-and-a-half years have not been easy,” Winkfield
said. “I can go to sleep knowing I did everything possible for
my kid and no one can take that away from me.”

Winkfield and her lawyers had been trying to rescind the
California death certificate as part of a medical malpractice
lawsuit filed against Children’s Hospital in Oakland.

In refusing to throw out the lawsuit last year, a judge ruled
that it was up to a jury to determine if the girl was still
alive.

Attorney Chris Dolan said the New Jersey death certificate
eliminated that argument, but he and Winkfield are still
debating whether to continue the fight and possibly set a
precedent so other religious families don’t have to go through
the same situation.

“My wish is that she will get some laws changed,” Winkfield said
about her daughter. “I really hope that people learn from this
and learn not to pull the plug so fast.”

Children’s Hospital lawyers had argued that the family did not
subject McMath to tests accepted by the American Medical
Association to determine brain death.

Dolan says new technology has made traditional tests obsolete.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/girl-declared-brain-
dead-5-years-ago-dies-california-n887716

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