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ADMINISTRATION: Donald Sweet, Alan J. Abrams, Denise Brown, Anne M. Considine, Helga Halaki, Tosca LaBoy, Katharine K. McNevin, Barbara Milberg, Teresa D. Sedlak, Deborah R. Slater, Rafael Soto...
Retired schoolteacher Helga Wanglie, 87, has lain in a vegetative state at the Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis since last May. There is no possibility of recovery. Doctors have told Oliver Wanglie, Helga's husband of 53 years, that they want to end life support for a patient whose prospects seem so hopeless. Cost is not an issue: the family's health insurance covers almost all expenses. But Wanglie refuses to permit the demise of his spouse, who, according to him, believed firmly that only God should make such a determination. "She told me that if anything happened...
...Hennepin have failed to persuade the retired attorney to transfer his wife to another facility or file for an injunction that would force the hospital to continue care. Therefore they plan to take a disturbing and unprecedented step: asking a state court to grant the hospital permission to disconnect Helga's life-support systems. "We don't feel the physicians should be forced by the family to provide inappropriate medical care," says Dr. Michael Belzer, Hennepin's medical director...
ADMINISTRATION: Donald Sweet, Alan J. Abrams, Denise Brown, Anne M. Considine, Helga Halaki, Tosca LaBoy, Katharine K. McNevin, Barbara Milberg, Teresa D. Sedlak, Deborah R. Slater, Rafael Soto...
ADMINISTRATION: Donald Sweet, Alan J. Abrams, Denise Brown, Anne M. Considine, Helga Halaki, Tosca LaBoy, Katharine K. McNevin, Barbara Milberg, Teresa D. Sedlak, Deborah R. Slater, Rafael Soto...