The case of<unk><unk>  involved a thirteen-year-old girl who was declared brain dead in California following surgery in 2013. This led to a bioethical debate engendered by her family's rejection of the medicolegal findings of death in the case, and their efforts to maintain her body using mechanical ventilation and other measures. Her parents considered these measures to constitute life support, while her doctors considered this to be futile treatment of a deceased person. In October 2014, the<unk>  family attorney made the unprecedented request that<unk><unk> 's brain death declaration be overturned. The attorney later withdrew this request, saying he wanted time for the court-appointed medical expert and his own medical experts to confer. In March 2015,<unk> 's family filed a malpractice lawsuit against Children's Hospital Oakland and against the surgeon who performed<unk> 's surgery, indicating they were prepared to argue as part of the lawsuit that<unk>  is not dead, but profoundly disabled. The family lawyer stated that a preliminary second death certificate was issued on June 22, 2018, listing extensive bleeding relating to liver failure as the cause of death.
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Sigmund Freud bibliography
EFAR System Model
Guy's Hospital Reports
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