Friday, February 6, 2009

U.S. Doctors Refuse "Inappropriate" Surgery

Sheyla Hershey has undergone nine surgeries to get her current super sized figure of 38-KKK. 

And she's only 5 feet 3 inches tall.  Hershey says she going for another surgery latest this year, to make her breasts even bigger.

The Daily Star newspaper reports that she had to go to Brazil for her latest surgery because U.S. doctors refused to perform any more surgery on her.  (Daily Star)  

It is easy for providers to refuse demands for treatment that they judge inappropriate where they have not yet formed a treatment relationship with the (prospective) patient.  What makes futility disputes so difficult is that the treatment relationship has already been formed.  And it cannot be terminated in any of the legitimate methods (mutual agreement, patient consent, end of medical episode, notice and transfer) that would avoid liability for tortious abandonment.

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