Tonsil Removal Goes Awry at Oakland Hospital, Teen Brain Dead

How wrong could go a simple procedure to remove tonsils?

Very terribly awry indeed, as doctors at the Oakland Hospital found out recently. How could it have come to this? A 13-year-old girl makes a way into the medical center to get that collections of lymphoid tissue facing into the aerodigestive tract removed and before she knew it, she is brain dead. 

Doctors are trying to figure out what happend. It stands as a fact that Jahi McMath went to have her tonsils removed last week at the local Children's Hospital, where she was expected to stay overnight. But she began bleeding from her nose and mouth after the procedure and then went into cardiac arrest, and doctors say she is now brain dead.

Children's Hospital said in a statement that it is reviewing the case.

Doctors have told the family that the girl, currently hooked up to a ventilator, will not recover. But family members, who allege that representatives of the hospital have pushed to take McMath off life support, say they want the hospital to keep her alive.

"I am not leaving unless she leaves with me because I will not let them pull the plug on my child," the girl's mother, Nailah Winkfield, told CBS.