Read through the posts submitted by your fellow students for Post 1. Choose a post that interests you, and respond to it. But for this post, you no longer represent the hospital. Now, you represent Ms. R. E. Fusal. What arguments would you tell the judge on her behalf? What are your issues with the arguments presented to the judge by the hospital in Post 1?
Here is the post
As the attorney representing the hospital where Ms. Fusal has been receiving treatment up to this point, I am bringing this case to you today to demonstrate to the court the importance of Ms. Fusal receiving a blood transfusion. Ms. Fusal is a 38-year-old female Jehovah witness, single mom of a ten-year-old boy, and whose health is rapidly deteriorating, and she will die if she does not receive this blood transfusion. I’ve given you Ms. Fusal’s medical records and diagnostic testing, explaining her medical condition and the need for an urgent blood transfusion. Ms. Fusal has been informed of the advantages of receiving treatment and the fact that there is currently no other treatment that can save her life. Despite Ms. Fusal’s refusal of treatment, our doctors continue to give her the best possible care within the parameters she has set for us; I tell you that receiving this blood transfusion remains critical. I urge the court to order the blood transfusion based on the Application of President & Directors of Georgetown College where the judge concluded that “a life hung in the balance’’1 and announced that he “was determined to act on the side of life’’1
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