How is this "board" not made up of medical experts?!?! It’s all lawyers!!

By Max Kozlov

Dead in California but alive in New Jersey: that was the status of 13-year-old Jahi McMath after physicians in Oakland, California, declared her brain dead in 2013, after complications from a tonsillectomy.
Unhappy with the care that their daughter received and unwilling to remove life support, McMath’s family moved with her to New Jersey, where the law allowed them to lodge a religious objection to the declaration of brain death and keep McMath connected to life-support systems for another four and a half years.
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One concern is a lack of scientific expertise. The ULC committee that will ultimately decide on the final text of the revised UDDA consists of 15 voting members, all of whom are attorneys, and none of whom has direct experience treating people with severe brain injury.
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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02226-z