The conspiracy theorists on the internet

Hey, have you heard the one about the father who resuscitated his own baby daughter at birth when the physicians who'd promised to do it decided not to?

How about the one where the baby self-extubated and the neonatologist didn't re-intubate, despite there being no parental consent to withdraw treatment?

'Slow code': Trisomy 18 in the UK

The US folk call it 'slow code'; we don't have a phrase for it in the UK, but we probably should. I might suggest that 'negligence', 'substandard care', 'lying' and 'collusion' are not too strong for this practice, which is widespread in the UK for children with trisomy 18.