Because this transition was after the big one, the Lees were mostly stressed and confused and Valley Children’s did a poor job of distilling those feelings. Valley Children’s expected Lia to die swiftly, proclaimed her brain dead, urged the Lees to take her off life support and claimed they could provide no further medical care (Fadiman,1997). This experience didn’t change the Lees thoughts towards health care professionals for the better as they took her home to care for her in her vegetative state for the remainder of her
Because this transition was after the big one, the Lees were mostly stressed and confused and Valley Children’s did a poor job of distilling those feelings. Valley Children’s expected Lia to die swiftly, proclaimed her brain dead, urged the Lees to take her off life support and claimed they could provide no further medical care (Fadiman,1997). This experience didn’t change the Lees thoughts towards health care professionals for the better as they took her home to care for her in her vegetative state for the remainder of her