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Terminally ill children 'tortured' by futile treatments as their religious parents hope for divine intervention
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 14797627:MV8xOTU3MzkwXzMyODIyNDA4X0JCMTkxMTgw] As if the medical INDUSRTY can cure any thing! HAHAHA! All they do is mask symptom and kill you with a slow death by meds, Fuck off Idiot. [/quote]
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Terminally ill children are being subjected to needless suffering by parents who hold out hope for a 'miraculous intervention' because of their deeply held religious beliefs, a new study suggests.
Concerns have been raised that parents who trust in divine intervention despite medical advice that there is no chance of survival are putting their children through aggressive and futile treatments.
The cases in which withdrawal or withholding of intensive care was considered to be in the child’s best interests were consistent with the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health guidance.
Eleven of these cases (65 per cent) involved directly expressed religious claims that intensive care should not be stopped because of the expectation of divine intervention and a complete cure, together with the conviction that the opinion of the medical team was overly pessimistic and wrong.
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