Posted on 03/23/2005 5:31:11 AM PST by conservativecorner
You have probably heard Michael Schiavo’s attorney George Felos say things such as this about Terri Schiavo’s brain:
"CT scans just don't lie. When you look at that picture, you see a big black hole filled with water where her brain used to be," Felos said. "There is no cognition, no thought process, no awareness."
Now the doctor at CodeBlueBlog has found the CT scan that Felos is referring to, and what the doctor has discovered is both shocking and wonderful: Felos is wrong, the courts have been wrong. Terri’s brain is not damaged as much as we have been led to believe.
Update: The doctor has also looked at Terri's bone scan report, and concludes that "someone either was physically abusing Terri or they dropped/mishandled her severely."
CodeBlueBlog:
The most alarming thing about this image . . . is that there certainly is cortex left. Granted, it is severely thinned, especially for Terri's age, but I would be nonplussed if you told me that this was a 75 year old female who was somewhat senile but fully functional, and I defy a radiologist anywhere to contest that.
I HAVE SEEN MANY WALKING, TALKING, FAIRLY COHERENT PEOPLE WITH WORSE CEREBRAL/CORTICAL ATROPHY. THEREFORE, THIS IS IN NO WAY PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE THAT TERRI SCHIAVO'S MENTAL ABILITIES OR/OR CAPABILITIES ARE COMPLETELY ERADICATED. I CANNOT BELIEVE SUCH TESTIMONY HAS BEEN GIVEN ON THE BASIS OF THIS SCAN.
The worrisome, no alarming thing, for me, was that I heard a bioethicist and several important figures on the major media describe Terri's brain as MUCH WORSE. One "expert" said that she had a "bag of water" in her head. Several experts described her as a "brain stem preparation"
These statements are wholly inaccurate. This is an atrophied brain, yes, but there is cortex remaining, and where there's cortex (?life) there's hope.
If you starve this woman to death it would be, in my professional and experienced medical opinion, the equivalent of starving to death a 75-85 year old person. I would take that to the witness stand.
Wouldn’t you love to see the CodeBlueBlog doctor get the chance to take the witness stand and explain that Terri doesn’t have a "bag of water" in her brain? Spread the word about what the doctor has discovered -- and if you have an in with the Schindlers or their attorneys, please direct them to the CodeBlueBlog web site, where they can contact the doctor.
I just found Terri's 1991 bone scan and I believe she was I just found Terri's 1991 bone scan and I believe she was I just found Terri's 1991 bone scan and I believe she was abused, physically.
Link to bone scan.
Thanks to reader "primer" I've been directed to the University of Miami Ethics program website where they posted this image from a CT scan of Terri Schiavo's brain in 1996. The sentence attached to the link for this scan on the site says:
CT scan of Ms. Schiavo's brain, showing extensive cortical regions filled with spinal fluid.
If you go to this link you can see the scan in a larger reproduction.
I have no further comment, but you should not base anything on what you are citing. It's wrong.
More facts?
Can you be more specific regarding what you mean by facts?
Terri apparently has more gray matter then most of the people around her, Why for the love of god don't they do a current scan and put this issue to rest? Because m.shiavo knows better? He wants her cremated right away. Destroying any evidence of this "GRAVE ERROR". (this is no pun)........
This same doctor, viewing only the bone scan report, came up with a nearly identical analysis as the doctor who originally analyzed the bone scan, whose testimony was located afterwards. That gives him some credibility. On what basis should his analysis of the CT scan be disregarded?
Because the husband will not allow a CT Scan, MRI or PET Scan on Terri. He wants here dead.
You have no comment at all, then. If you are unwilling or unable to dispense some of the special knowledge you claim to have, then it is useless to you and everyone else on this board, sir.
Impossible.
Michael is a caring, loving husband who is only looking out for her best interests and wishes. He said so.
This may seem like a strange comparison, but it reminds me of Tim McVeigh...hurry up, kill him and bury him before he can talk.
I'm not going to get back into this and be called a murderer and worse again.
I'm a FReeper since 5/98, I'm a physician who has seen many scans and many patients with brain injury, and I'm just telling you that the vast majority of consultants who have seen this scan are right and this blogger is wrong.
Believe what you like.
I would be interested in hearing from anyone in the medical field on FR in ref to this article and pics you've posted. I've heard and read enough to make me at least doubtful this woman has been given proper testing and diagnosis.
There are so many conflicting reports and apparent agendas in this case it boggles the mind.
I'm not going to call you a murderer, I just want information. Right now, that's the only detailed analysis of the CT scan that's available. If there's a reason to doubt it, I would like to know what that reason is.
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It's the juvenile "my doctor can beat up your doctor" syndrome.
BTW, do not become upset by an assortment of character flaws who called you a murderer.
The bone scans show injury.
I don't do forensics, and have no basis to affirm or deny the mecahnism of the injuries.
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