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An emergency hearing is set for 9 a.m. Jan. 16, 2013, on a request to review the condition and care of Paul G. Smith, a gravely ill 88-year-old Carmel man at St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital, who is the subject of a family dispute over a decision last week to cut off artificially supplied nutrients and fluids. Here, he poses with daughter Susan Rissman, Carmel. / Provided by Susan Rissman (Indianapolis Star) (January 15, 2013) |
NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A central Indiana judge has scheduled an emergency hearing to review the case of a gravely ill 88-year-old man who's the subject of a family dispute over his medical care.
Wednesday's hearing before the Hamilton County judge was requested by one of Paul G. Smith's daughters.
The Indianapolis Star reports (http://indy.st/13ycHCT ) Susan Rissman contends in a motion filed Monday that the Carmel man's life "may be lost" due to his medical care at an Indianapolis hospital.
Rissman says her father was removed last week from a ventilator that helped ease breathing for the retired attorney and former Hamilton County magistrate.
She says nutrition supplied through a feeding tube was stopped the following day. Both actions apparently were based on directives from Smith's living will and another of his daughters.
