'Baby W' anti-vax surgery case

> The parents allegedly had a list of 20 or more people who met the relevant criteria for the parents besides being a proper match for the child.

If we start going that path where do you draw the line ? Will one day people ask for male blood only, heterosexual blood only, republican blood only, &c. ?

Is the docket and filings publicly available anywhere? I suspect they would get into more factual info (and if what you say is correct, why it is not acceptable).

This just sounds like poor planning. I believe that if the parents prepared a list of people who met the relevant criteria and sought pre-approval at local hospitals for respecting their wishes, then this would be a non-story. I assume this is a possibility given there are services that let you use your own stored blood for transfusions that's donated if close to expiration. It sounds like they did not seek any form of pre-approval. This is relatively unsympathetic, no one plans to have their child need heart surgery on short notice, but if the parents have specific requests that they're worried will not be honored, then make sure of that before hand.

From the article, it sounds like the parent's blocked testing unrelated to bloodwork and transfusions as well. Many hospitals are willing to work with strange last minute requests (to some degree), but if they were being otherwise difficult then that reduces any patience the staff has to go out of their way to accommodate anything outside of the standard procedure.