Attorneys Report Spike in Calls for Help From Families of Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19

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Attorneys Report Spike in Calls for Help From Families of Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19

Attorneys around the country report an alarming uptick in calls for help from families of patients hospitalized with COVID-19. Some say they’ve talked to family members who were arrested after trying to visit a loved one or to speak with a doctor after communications with the hospital were cut off.
 
Attorneys told The Epoch Times about a wide variety of instances of what they call abuse, including hospitals preventing visits from family, failing to provide nutrition and fluids, and coercing patients to agree to treatments they’d already refused multiple times—such as being placed on a ventilator.

Gainesville, Florida, attorney Jeff Childers said “The most common complaints we get include that patients are being pressured to accept Remdesivir, have been given Remdesivir even though they objected to it, or the hospital will not administer alternative widely-used treatments even though the patient is in critical condition where side effects are less risky than imminent death.”
 
Attorney Esther Bodek in Aurora, Colorado had clients denied fluids and nutrition to the point of near-starvation. Since taking those cases she works night and day seven days a week.
 
Omaha, Nebraska attorney Gerard Forgét said Hospitals often ask patients being admitted to sign a health care directive or living will indicating, in advance, decisions about whether or not to be put on life support. “I advise clients against this,” Forgét said. Signing one of those documents “vests your physician with authority that supersedes your spouse, or other family members. This can yield tragic results!” Giving a physician that power means he or she can remove life support without consulting family, he says. “Signing that gives your physician permission to kill you!”