Tag Archives: McMaster Children’s Hospital

Attorney general, Six Nations, McMaster Children’s Hospital Have Good News!

by | April 25, 2015
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Finally some good news in a legal case that up-to-now has been heart wrenching and frustrating. I’m of course referring to the case of JJ, the First Nations girl whose mother decided last Fall to replace her chemotherapy treatment (a treatment that gave her a 90-95% chance of recovery) with traditional medicine, mostly administered at the Florida Health… Read more »

Court in Canada Allows Parents to Stop Chemotherapy in Favour of “Traditional Medicine”

by | November 15, 2014
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I had thought about writing about the following case earlier but I was so annoyed that I was completely unmotivated to do so. Happily, Jerry Coyne wrote about it at WEIT but I’ll add my thoughts here as well. I am of course talking about the case of a First Nations child whose parents decided to… Read more »