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Oregon Hospitals Didn't Have Shortages. So Why Were Disabled People Denied Care? at 12:21 pm NPR At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, a small group of disability rights advocates found itself in a race against time to save the life of a woman with an intellectual disability. The woman was taken to the hospital with COVID-19. But the hospital, in a small Oregon town, denied the ventilator she needed. Instead, a doctor, citing her "low quality of life," wanted her to sign a legal form to allow the hospital to deny her care. Out of that quiet fight in early spring, the adv...
Oregon Hospitals Didn't Have Shortages. So Why Were Disabled People Denied Care? Masks hang from an IV pole at a hospital. Jenny Kane / AP At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, a small group of disability rights advocates found itself in a race against time to save the life of a woman with an intellectual disability. The woman was taken to the hospital with COVID-19. But the hospital, in a small Oregon town, denied the ventilator she needed. Instead, a doctor, citing her "low quality of life," wanted her to sign a legal form to allow the hospital to deny her care.
Masks hang from an IV pole at a hospital. Jenny Kane/AP At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, a small group of disability rights advocates found itself in a race against time to save the life of a woman with an intellectual disability. The woman was taken to the hospital with COVID-19. But the hospital, in a small Oregon town, denied the ventilator she needed. Instead, a doctor, citing her "low quality of life," wanted her to sign a legal form to allow the hospital to deny her care. Out of that quiet fight in early spring, the advocates — staff at a disability rights legal g...