The way this woman approaches the medical care of her child is one of the most terrifying and heartbreaking things I have read in a long time. Any parent who u

The way this woman approaches the medical care of her child is one of the most terrifying and heartbreaking things I have read in a long time. Any parent who uses their emotions as the primary (if not sole) driver of what medical care their child receives should not be permitted to have guardianship over a child and should probably be in assisted living themselves. She "didn't like that it required sedation". She "didn't want to overload his system". She "felt more comfortable with" the surgeon. Those emotions are trained responses. They can be, and aggressively are, manipulated in underhanded and unexpected ways. They are an outgrowth of an intuition that grows out of the way the brain functions in the absence of conscious guidance - a functioning that evolved just to keep human beings alive while living in small tribes on an African savannah. It has no place in modern society, and is almost always wrong. That a parent would care so little about their child that they are not willing to engage in some critical thinking and analysis that ignores their own emotion is disgusting.