Refusal to Give CPR Leads to Death and is Defended

From Fox News.

Still believe in the myth of human progress? This story ought to cure your delusions. This is unbelievably horrifying. I am so happy that company protocol was followed so that death resulted. They must be proud. This was someone’s grandma or mother or aunt or sister or friend. It could have been your grandma or mother or aunt or sister or friend.

This is the brave new world we are creating, where Christian influence is being pushed aside (not to mention common sense) and replaced by more “enlightened” values. Jeremiah’s warning keeps ringing in my ear as I read this article. The human heart is desperately wicked and beyond cure. Who can understand it? (Jeremiah 17.9).

[The 911 Dispatcher] Halvorson urged the woman to start CPR, warning the consequences could be dire if no one tried to revive the woman, who had been laid out on the floor on her instructions.

She said one of the home’s policies prevented her from doing CPR, according to an audio recording of the call.

“I understand if your boss is telling you, you can’t do it,” the dispatcher said. “But … as a human being … you know, is there anybody that’s willing to help this lady and not let her die?”

“Not at this time,” she answered.

Halvorson assured the staff member that Glenwood couldn’t be sued if anything went wrong in attempts to resuscitate the resident, saying the local emergency medical system “takes the liability for this call.”

Later in the call, Halvorson asked, “Is there a gardener? Any staff, anyone who doesn’t work for you? Anywhere? Can we flag someone down in the street and get them to help this lady? Can we flag a stranger down? I bet a stranger would help her.”

“I understand if your facility is not willing to do that. Give the phone to a passer-by. This woman is not breathing enough. She is going to die if we don’t get this started, do you understand?”

The woman had no pulse and wasn’t breathing when fire crews reached her, said Battalion Chief Anthony Galagaza of the Bakersfield Fire Department.

The executive director of Glenwood Gardens, Jeffrey Toomer, defended the staff member in a written statement, saying she followed the facility’s policy.

“In the event of a health emergency at this independent living community, our practice is to immediately call emergency medical personnel for assistance and to wait with the individual needing attention until such personnel arrives,” Toomer said. “That is the protocol we followed.”

Read the whole sad thing (emphasis added in the story)