Judge Orders Hospital to Sustain Jahi Mcmath's Dead Body

Douglas Strauss (attorney for Childrens)
Christopher Dolan (attorney for family)

Yesterday, Alameda County judge Evelio Grillo issued a temporary restraining order (and here) to prevent Children's Hospital Oakland from disconnecting 13-year-old Jahi Mcmath from the ventilator until an independent neurologist can examine her to determine if her brain is showing signs of activity.  I posted the court papers here.



Notably, mother, Nailah Winkfield, will not give up, even after getting a second independent opinion.  She explains that neurosurgeons have been wrong before.  In this brief ABC News interview, she expresses a fundamental misunderstanding of death ("her hands are warm").  She also expresses prognostic mistrust, belief in miracles, guilt, loyalty, and many other strong emotional and psychological motivations typical of surrogates in medical futility disputes.