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Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: The attorney for the family of a 13-year-old girl who has been declared brain dead after suffering complications from a routine tonsil-removal surgery said he will seek an injunction on Friday that would prevent her from being taken off life-support. Cheryl Hurd reports. (Published Thursday, Dec. 19, 2013) 
  
 The attorney for the family of a 13-year-old Oakland girl who has been declared brain dead after suffering complications from a routine tonsil-removal surgery said he will seek an injunction on Friday that would prevent her from being taken off life support. 
  
 Jahi McMath's family late Thursday met with Children's Hospital Oakland officials to request the teen be kept on life-support through the Christmas holiday. The hospital is unwilling to meet the request, according to the family, who added that they feel doctors were dismissive of their wishes. 
  
 "I don't want to have my Christmas every year remind me of her being taken off a ventilator," said Nailah Winkfield, Jahi's mother. 
  
 The family attorney, Chris Dolan, sent a letter earlier Thursday to Children’s Hospital asking for several things, among them, giving the 13-year-old a nutrition tube, keeping her on the ventilator through Christmas and giving the family 48-hour notice should doctors decide to take her off of life-support. 
  
 Family, Friends Pray for Oakland Girl, Jahi McMath, Declared Brain Dead After Tonsillectomy 
  
 Hundreds of family, friends and other supporters attended the service at Paradise Baptist Church in Oakland for 13-year-old Jahi McMath, who had her tonsils removed on Dec. 9 and was declared brain dead three days later. Jean Elle reports. (Published Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013) 
  
 Dolan said the hospital also has denied the family's request for Jahi's complete medical records and their request to have an outside medical expert make an independent determination as to whether she is brain dead. 
  
 MORE: "Urgent" Request to Keep 8th Grader Jahi McMath on Life Support After Tonsillectomy 
  
 The family believes the 8th grader can still recover. 
  
 This all began on Dec. 9, when McMath went into Children’s Hospital for a tonsillectomy. After the surgery, she began suffering severe complications. Three days later, she was declared brain dead. 
  
 Family Relieved Hospital Keeps Oakland Girl on Life Support 
  
 A lawyer for a family whose 13-year-old was declared brain dead following a tonsillectomy to cure her sleep apnea filed an "urgent" request seeking to block the hospital from further action Tuesday, the same day employees planned to take the girl off life support. Jean Elle reports. (Published Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013) 
  
 Jahi’s family said the hospital was pressuring them to take McMath off life-support -- until they threatened legal action. 
  
 Her family has been holding court outside Children's Hospital for the last several days, taking to the media to make their battle public to keep Jahi on life support. Her heart is still beating, though two EEG tests on Tuesday showed no signs of life, according to her family. 
  
 Jahi had the tonsillectomy to help her with sleep apnea, the family has said, but has never disclosed more. 
  
 Dr. David Durand, chief of pediatrics, released the following statement late Thursday: 
  
 Hospital Temporarily Grants Request to Keep Oakland Girl on Life Support 
  
 A lawyer for a family whose 13-year-old was declared brain dead following a tonsillectomy to cure her sleep apnea filed an "urgent" request seeking to block the hospital from further action Tuesday, the same day employees planned to take the girl off life support. Cheryl Hurd reports. (Published Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013) 
  
 Our hearts go out to the family and friends of Jahi McMath. This is a tragic situation. "I Don't Want to Bury My 13-Year-Old," Mom of 8th Grader Brain Dead After Tonsillectomy We want the public to know that the family has not permitted us to discuss the medical situation. We are unable -- without the family’s permission--to talk about the medical procedure, background or any of the details that are a part of this tragedy. Details that would provide transparency, openness and provide answers to the public about this situation. We implore the family to allow the hospital to openly discuss what has occurred and to give us the necessary legal permission--which it has been withholding--that would bring clarity, and we believe, some measure of closure and deeper understanding of this medical case. ''Urgent'' Request to Keep 8th Grader Alive After Tonsillectomy A lawyer for a family whose 13-year-old was declared brain dead following a tonsillectomy to cure her sleep apnea filed an ''urgent'' request with the courts on Tuesday, the same day hospital employees planned to take the girl off life support. Christie Smith reports. (Published Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013) Many of the statements made by the family and its attorney must be taken in the context that they will not allow CHO to discuss the case and provide the information necessary for there to be a fuller understanding. 
  
 EEG Conducted for 8th Grader Declared Brain Dead After Tonsillectomy 
  
 Relatives of Jahi McMath, a 13-year-old girl who was declared legally dead on Monday following a tonsillectomy that prompted a heart attack, are hoping that an electroencephalogram test scheduled for Tuesday at Children's Hospital will show some signs of life. Christie Smith reports (Published Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2013) 
  
 MORE: Brain Dead Oakland Teen's Family Seeking Mayor's Help 
  
 Family Continues Fight to Keep Girl Declared "Brain Dead" on Life Support 
  
 Doctors late Monday agreed to run one more series of tests to determine if there is any brain activity coming from Jahi McMath. Earlier in the day, doctors planned to take her off life-support after she was declared brain dead on Dec. 12. George Kiriyama reports. (Published Monday, Dec. 16, 2013) 
  
 NBC Bay Area's Cheryl Hurd and Bay City News Service contributed to this report. ||||| Staff writers 
  
 OAKLAND -- The family fighting to keep a brain-dead 13-year-old girl on medical support through Christmas blasted administrators at Children's Hospital Oakland on Thursday evening, saying that hospital officials told them in a private meeting that the girl had to be taken off her ventilator "quickly." 
  
 "They said, 'What don't you understand?' She is dead, dead, dead,'" said Omari Sealey, the uncle of Jahi McMath, the Oakland teen who has been kept alive by machines since complications from a tonsil surgery last week in a case that has brought national attention and prayers from social media users around the world. "They just kept referring to her as 'a body.'" 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 The family's attorney, Christopher Dolan, said he will head to court on Friday morning to seek an injunction to halt any hospital intervention. Hospital officials have not given a timeline to remove the girl from the ventilator, he added 
  
 A hospital spokeswoman refused to directly address the meeting or the hospital's care or treatment of Jahi, but released a statement late Thursday evening imploring the family to allow the hospital to openly discuss Jahi's case. Hospital officials have repeatedly cited state and federal medical privacy laws in declining to comment. 
  
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 "We implore the family to allow the hospital to openly discuss what has occurred and to give us the necessary legal permission -- which it has been withholding -- that would bring clarity, and we believe, some measure of closure and deeper understanding of this medical case," Chief of Pediatrics David Durand said in the statement. 
  
 Jahi's mother, Nailah Winkfield, fought through tears as she spoke to reporters after the meeting Thursday evening. 
  
 "Can't we have her for Christmas?" Jahi's mother said to doctors. "I told them, 'You better not take my child off that machine. You do not have my permission.'" 
  
 Dolan and family members met with hospital officials Thursday evening to request that Jahi be kept on the ventilator at least until after the holidays, a request administrators would not agree to honor. Jahi was declared brain dead on Dec. 12, after complications from a Dec. 9 tonsil surgery. 
  
 Family members also said that they had asked the hospital for permission to bring their own doctors in to examine the girl; administrators denied that request, saying again that the girl was dead, and there would be no reason to do so. 
  
 "They keep saying she is 'dead, dead, dead' and I am hoping the courts will say 'no, no, no,'" Dolan said in a Thursday night news conference. "We just saw her; she is a beautiful young lady. She responds to her mother's touch. She is warm." 
  
 When asked why Dolan thought the hospital was insistent on taking Jahi off the ventilator, he answered, "I don't think they like all (the reporters) out here." 
  
 On Thursday, Dolan again repeated a family demand that they be given full access to Jahi's medical records. Hospital officials said Wednesday that the girl's family had the right to see her records at any time but that the entire record would not be released to them until the hospitalization ends. 
  
 Dolan also noted that the family is very grateful for the efforts of hospital staff, and that they are angry only with the decisions being made by top hospital administrators. 
  
 "It is important (the family) conveys that they know there are very good people in that hospital right now who are caring for Jahi, bathing her, feeding her," Dolan said. "This is not a condemnation of those who are keeping her alive. 
  
 "They are deeply angered that people in administration are trying to end her life because to them she is no longer alive." 
  
 Jahi had tonsil surgery to help her with sleep apnea, weight gain and other health problems and began bleeding from her nose and mouth and experienced cardiac arrest later that night. 
  
 The family, however, is hoping for "divine intervention" and is asking the world to pray for the girl. 
  
 "Their faith is strong, and they need time to allow prayer to take place and to, hopefully, work to heal Jahi," Dolan said earlier. 
  
 He added that he has been contacted by doctors who claim there are differing definitions of "brain dead"; the family wants to keep her on life support in hopes that her massive brain swelling will lessen and brain activity tests can be repeated. 
  
 Dolan said the family understands the hospital's position that Jahi is dead and that there is no medical benefit from treating a dead person. However, they disagree with the hospital's concept and determination of death, and say they have been inspired by accounts of patients who had been deemed "beyond hope" only to recover completely. 
  
 The family has requested that all life support and sustaining efforts to be undertaken including nutrition, hydration, skin care, medicinal management, oxygen and prophylactic antibiotics as needed. 
  
 The meeting between the family and hospital officials was their second meeting this week; the two sides met on Monday. 
  
 Contact Kristin J. Bender at kbender@bayareanewsgroup.com. Contact David Debolt at ddebolt@bayareanewsgroup.com. Contact Katie Nelson at knelson@bayareanewsgroup.com. |||||
Student:
The lawyer for the family of a girl declared brain-dead after a routine tonsil surgery is heading to court today in an attempt to keep Jahi McMath on life-support. The Oakland Children's Hospital has been pressuring family members to take the 13-year-old off her ventilator—and "quickly"—per the family, the San Jose Mercury News reports. "I told them, 'You better not take my child off that machine. You do not have my permission,'" Jahi's mother said, telling NBC News, "I don't want to have my Christmas every year remind me of her being taken off a ventilator." Officials reportedly denied her requests to wait until after Christmas and to have an outside expert examine her daughter, the Mercury News reports. "They keep saying she is 'dead, dead, dead' and I am hoping the courts will say 'no, no, no,'" the family's attorney said, noting their anger is directed only at top hospital officials, not those caring for Jahi. "We just saw her; she is a beautiful young lady. She responds to her mother's touch. She is warm." The hospital responded yesterday, but without much to say due to privacy laws. A rep did, however, implore the family to grant the hospital legal permission to publicly discuss the case to "bring clarity, and we believe, some measure of closure and deeper understanding of this medical case." Click for more on Jahi's case.