A “remarkable” 4 year old boy with severe brain malformation is still alive more than four months after life sustaining ventilation was withdrawn by court order, and he is living at home with his parents and breathing for himself.1
Doctors who gave expert evidence to the High Court predicted that the boy, NR, would die soon after ventilation was withdrawn. But the judge, Mr Justice Poole, said that the boy had “confounded all medical expectations” and that his case underlined the maxim of William Osler that “medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.”
None of the barristers in the case could point to any reported …
