COVID-19 Patient With Lungs Destroyed by Ventilator Is Set to Be Taken Off Life-Saving Machines, His Wife Says

COVID-19 Patient With Lungs Destroyed by Ventilator Is Set to Be Taken Off Life-Saving Machines, His Wife Says
Mark Boudreaux wrote "I want to live" on March 17, just days before he is scheduled to be taken off a life-saving machine SOURCE: Judy Boudreaux
Alice Giordano
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The hospital accused of destroying the lungs of a COVID-19 patient by leaving him on a ventilator for more than a year, now wants to remove the very life-saving machines that the man is dependent upon to live, according to his wife.

Judy Boudreaux says Bethesda North Hospital first told her on March 15 that they were going to remove her husband, Mark Boudreaux—the Hall of Fame designer of some of the most iconic Star Wars toys—from the mechanical ventilator he relies on to breathe because has a living will that says it’s his dying wish not have his life “artificially prolonged.”

Alice Giordano
Alice Giordano
Freelance reporter
Alice Giordano is a freelance reporter for The Epoch Times. She is a former news correspondent for The Boston Globe, Associated Press, and the New England bureau of The New York Times.
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