"In a letter to Stokes' family, officials at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston say
they won't put him on the transplant wait list because they said he had a history of non-compliance."
"He didn't have any medical history. He wouldn't, you know, make his doctor's appointments," said Hamilton. "
"Hamilton says her son has only been to clinics for check-ups and immunization shots because, until now, he's never been sick.
She believes money played a role in the hospital's decision."
""I think that they don't think that we can pay for the medicine.
We probably couldn't get to the doctor visits because of transportation.
I don't have a car," said Hamilton."
"Hamilton also believes Anthony's juvenile record played a role in the hospital's decision.
She says he was under a court-ordered house arrest."
But despite his past, Anthony's mother believes he deserves a chance to live so he can fulfill his dreams.
"He wants to go to college so bad. He talks about being an entrepreneur, opening up his own computer store," said Hamilton.
http://www.myfoxatlanta.com/story/23117264/mom-says-teen-son-kept-off-heart-transplant-list
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Mom, you're saying ---
College? Dreams? Talk?
Doesn't seem to be corroborated by whatever actions led to his ankle bracelet & house arrest.
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"They speculated that doctors were arguing he wouldn’t follow instructions
because of his grades, run-ins with law enforcement, and
the fact that he was wearing a police ankle bracelet during a medical examination —
something Mosteller said was because of a “youthful indiscretion that had nothing to do with jail.”
“We can’t determine what they mean,” Mosteller told TIME before the hospital reversed its decision.
“They did not say. We only have what they wrote [in a letter].”
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Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2013/08/13/about-face-hospital-puts-denied-teen-on-transplant-list/#ixzz2bxQTaJBe
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"An Aug. 7 letter from the hospital, which Bell [family friend] provided to CNN, said that "Anthony is currently not a transplant candidate due to having a history of noncompliance, which is one of our center's contraindications to listing for heart transplant."
http://www.clickorlando.com/lifesty...ial/-/1636830/21462436/-/6l9q68z/-/index.html [CNN sourced]
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So the president of this civil rights organization speaking for the family says he can't determine what they mean,
only has what they wrote -- "history of non-compliance history."
Hmmm.
ETA:
Thx to i.b.nora for info a few posts down.
W. linked article's ref to Mosteller as "
Reverend" and
the S
ChristianLC name, I had a brain freeze & wrote "religious organization"
rather than "civil rights organization."
Above, I deleted ref to SCLC as "religious" org.
Just FYI
http://sclcnational.org/our-mission/ states as first objective
"To promote spiritual principles within our
membership and local communities."
ETA2: Deleted some of teen's mom's quote.
We all make mistakes, and we humans are certainly more prone to those mistakes in our naive teenage years. I wouldn't necessarily say that his "youthful indiscretions" (although that's an interesting choice of words for something that led to house arrest!) should instantly make the kid ineligible for a heart transplant, though. Sure, the dreams of college and his future job may seem a bit odd when juxtaposed with his past criminal record, but there's plenty of other teenagers who made the same mistakes and successfully went on to graduate college despite their mischievous youth.
