Stacking the Deck

In a power play between a major university hospital and a patient and the patient's family, the family is at the mercy of the institution that holds all the cards. Who could have imagined that a major medical center would seek out a legal justification to kill a patient? My father was treated like a death row inmate but unlike a guilty prisoner awaiting execution, my Dad did not have recourse to seek pardon or clemency from the Governor or have years of stays provided by the courts.