Sam Singer, spokesman for the Children's Hospital Oakland, has taken it upon himself to dictate the limits of hope and prayer. Singer is one of the players in the gut wrenching saga of Jahi McMath, the 13-year-old Northern California girl who went in for a tonsillectomy and ended up brain dead.  The second girl in two years to suffer severe brain damage under similar conditions at Children's Hospital Oakland, the case obviously has the hospital on the defensive. In a jaw-dropping statement, made on behalf of the hospital, Mr. Singer, speaking with greater authority than anyone could have imagined, told the world:  "There is, unfortunately, no amount of hope, no amount of prayer that can bring her back." If Mr. Singer wants to tell us she is brain dead, fine.  If he wants to tell us that an independent physician also declared her brain dead and "there was no question of that," - fine.  She was indeed pronounced dead only three days after she underwent surgery to...(Read Full Post)