Posted AT 5:08 AM EDT on 12/12/07
A conflict between faith and medicine
WINNIPEG — Samuel Golubchuk is 84 years old, has suffered a brain injury, can't walk, speak or eat on his own, needs a ventilator to breathe and is retaining 10 times the water of a normal intensive-care patient.
Doctors say that, barring divine intervention, it's only a matter of time before he dies, and after four weeks in intensive care with no improvement, they want to remove the breathing apparatus keeping him alive.
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