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Couple Sues Hospital for Providing Heroic Treatment

By AAN Staff
june 14, 2002  03:29 pm
Couple Sues Hospital for Providing Heroic Treatment
Almost since her traumatic birth, Sidney Miller of Houston, Texas, has been at the center of a legal battle that has reached the Texas Supreme Court and will very likely not stop there. At her very premature birth, her parents told the hospital not to take any heroic measures to keep her alive, Traci Neal reports in the Hartford Advocate. The hospital refused, and the Millers have been paying for it — emotionally and financially -- ever since. Now they want the hospital to pick up the tab for its actions. The courts' decision could change the way hospitals nationwide treat very premature, low birth-weight and desperately ill infants. Neal, a copy editor at the Advocate, was herself a preemie and took on the story voluntarily, interviewing Connecticut neonatologists and medical ethicists to give the national story a state angle. "Most of my work was done at home (with a 2- and 4-year-old tugging at my shirt) and much of the writing was done between the hours of 10 p.m. and 2 a.m.," Neal tells AAN News.
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