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A UK court ruled he could not seek treatment elsewhere, and was ordered off life support. That's not misinformation, it's reality.

edit Downvoted for citing a verifiable fact. This is a remarkably emotional, politically-charged thread. Comments and voting in this thread are driven not by logic and reason, but by emotion and political bias.




There was no treatment to be had in Rome, they were just going to hook him up to a life support machine. The doctors in Rome, being doctors, are professionals, so they never once suggested they would be able to cure or even treat his condition.


The court effectively ruled that 'further treatment for Alfie would be "unkind and inhumane"', that "continuing life-support treatment would not be in the best interests of Alfie" that it "is not lawful that such treatment continue".

This has little to do with universal healthcare, and is more a case of justice (purportedly - I'm not trying to be a judge myself here) protecting a children from its parents.


>> "There was no treatment to be had in Rome"

You are misinformed. The article I linked to showed that Italian doctors "said they would investigate different treatments."


You are misinformed. Here's the actual real court case: https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/judgments/thomas-evans-v-alder-...

"But I came, on the consensus of every doctor from every country who had ever evaluated Alfie's condition, to the inevitable conclusion (following 7 days of evidence) that Alfie's brain had been so corroded by his Neurodegenerative Brain Disorder that there was simply no prospect of recovery. By the time I requested the updated MRI scan in February, the signal intensity was so bright that it revealed a brain that had been almost entirely wiped out. In simple terms the brain consisted only of water and CSF. The connective tissues and the white matter of the brain that had been barely visible 6 months earlier had now vanished entirely and with it the capacity for sight, hearing, taste, the sense of touch. All that could be offered by the Bambino Gesu Hospital in Rome was an alternative palliative care plan. An end of life plan. And so, on a true deconstruction of the issues, it is that that this case has been about: what is the appropriate end of life plan for Alfie?"




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