Guarding the Guardians (The Pinellas County judiciary pushes more secrecy... -Terri )

Gulf Coast Business Review ^ | 4/30/2004 | Francis X. Gilpin

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Guarding the Guardians

By Francis X. Gilpin, Associate Editor © Gulf Coast Business Review. Reprinted by permission of Publisher. (Tampa edition) - 4/30/2004

The Pinellas County judiciary pushes more secrecy surrounding guardianships. Hillsborough County lets the sun shine in.

"Hillsborough County is a shining example."

It's not every day that those words are uttered to describe Hillsborough's much-investigated judiciary. But those are exactly the words that Robert W. Melton chose to use.

The top auditor for Pinellas County Circuit Court Clerk Karleen F. DeBlaker praised the Hillsborough judiciary at a recent local hearing of a state task force on guardianships. Melton cheered the fact that all initial, annual and final reports as well as amendments filed in guardianship cases within the 13th Judicial Circuit are open to public inspection...

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[FR_addict]

Dr. Cranford was just interviewed on CNN. He actually said Terri's EEG was flat. This even surprised the doctor on CNN. He said that a flat EEG is how you determined if someone was dead for organ donation and anyone could see she wasn't brain dead. She couldn't have a flat EEG.

This needs to go out to Hannity. He's going to have Dr. Cranford on tonight.

[FR_addict]

Even I know that Terri cannot have a flat EEG like Dr. Cranford said. The point is that Dr. Cranford is making incredulous claims and this is the doctor that Michael used.

Here's some more on Dr. Cranford:
"But the star medical witness for Michael Schiavo, Dr. Ronald Cranford of the University of Minnesota, has repeatedly dismissed calls for MRI testing, and his opinion has prevailed.

Dr. Cranford was the principal medical witness brought in by Schiavo and Felos to support their position that Terri was PVS.

But before that, one needs to know a little about Cranford’s background and perspective: Dr. Ronald Cranford is one of the most outspoken advocates of the “right to die” movement and of physician-assisted suicide in the U.S. today.

In published articles, including a 1997 op-ed in the Minneapolis–St. Paul Star Tribune, he has advocated the starvation of Alzheimer’s patients.

In cases where other doctors don’t see it, Dr. Cranford seems to have a knack for finding PVS. Cranford also diagnosed Robert Wendland as PVS. He did so in spite of the fact that Wendland could pick up specifically colored pegs or blocks and hand them to a therapy assistant on request. He did so in spite of the fact that Wendland could operate and maneuver an ordinary wheelchair with his left hand and foot, and an electric wheelchair with a joystick, of the kind that many disabled persons (most famously Dr. Stephen Hawking) use. Dr. Cranford dismissed these abilities as meaningless. Fortunately for Wendland, the California supreme court was not persuaded by Cranford’s assessment."

Sanjay Gupta was the other doctor on CNN who was very surprised at Dr. Cranford's statement. I don't know which show this is but I think I caught it on tape.

Dr. Cranford will be on Hannity tonight. Please let him know about Dr. Cranford.

[Ohioan from Florida]

Terri ping! If anyone would like to be added to or removed from my Terri ping list, please let me know by FReepmail!

[DJ MacWoW]

He actually said Terri's EEG was flat.

Is he sure he wasn't reading his EEG?

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I just replayed it. I have it on tape from the satelite:

About 3:30pm today Eastern time:

Dr. Cranford is not in the studio. The lady on CNN was called Kira, a reddish blonde lady. I replayed the part with Dr. Cranford.

Dr. Ronald Cranford:
"Her EEG is flat, she doesn't show any electrical activity at all"

Can we get a transcript?

He makes bizarre statements like this and gets away with it.

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[eeevil conservative]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050322/ids_photos_ts/r2735525278.jpg

another arrested trying ot bring terri water!

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I'm surprised there haven't been more.

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Sean Hannity is there, isn't he?

[FR_addict]

I don't know where it stands now, but Terri's mom this afternoon said that they were only one vote from passing the Florida Senate Bill for Terri. This was the list of most likely Florida Senators that could change their votes.

FL SENATE EMAIL LIST

alexander.jd.web@Flsenate.gov; bennett.mike.web@flsenate.gov; argenziano.nancy.web@flsenate.gov; bullard.larcenia.web@flsenate.gov; campbell.walter.web@flsenate.gov; carlton.lisa.web@flsenate.gov; dawson.mandy.web@flsenate.gov; dockery.paula.web@flsenate.gov; jones.dennis.web@flsenate.gov; king.james.web@flsenate.gov; lynn.evelyn.web@flsenate.gov; sunders.burt.web@flsenate.gov

This is their Phone numbers and Fax lists:

JD Alexander (Majority Whip) 850-487-5044 alexander.jd.web@Flsenate.gov fax (888) 263-3869 and (district office) (863)679-4413

Nancy Argenziano 850-487-5017 argenziano.nancy.web@flsenate.gov fax (352) 860-5177

Michael S. Bennett 850-487-5078 bennett.mike.web@flsenate.gov fax (850) 487-5486 and (dist off) (941) 727-6352


Larcenia J. Bullard 850-487-5127 bullard.larcenia.web@flsenate.gov fax (850) 487-5450 and (dist off) (305) 668-7346


Walter G. Campbell 850-487-5094 campbell.walter.web@flsenate.gov (850) 487-5394 and (dist off) (954) 346-2815

Lisa Carlton 850487-5081 850-487-5081 carlton.lisa.web@flsenate.gov fax (850) 487-5406 and (dist off) (941) 486-2050

M. Mandy Dawson 850-487-5112 dawson.mandy.web@flsenate.gov fax (850) 487-5841 and (dist off) (954) 467-4331

Paula Dockery 850-487-5040 dockery.paula.web@flsenate.gov fax (850) 487-5385 and (dist off) (863) 413-2902

Dennis L. Jones 850-487-5065 jones.dennis.web@flsenate.gov fax (850) 487-5182 and (dist off) (727) 549-6413

James E. King Jr. 850-487-5030 king.james.web@flsenate.gov fax (850) 487-5368 and (dist off) (904) 727-3603

Evelyn J. Lynn 850-487-5033 lynn.evelyn.web@flsenate.gov fax (850) 487-5842 and (dist off) (386) 676-4002

Burt L. Sanders 850-487-5124 sunders.burt.web@flsenate.gov fax (888) 263-7893 and (dist off) (239) 417-6223

[FR_addict]

Direct from the hospice -- freeper 8mmMauser
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The hospice had a meeting of the support staff and insisted they all sign some kind of paper condemning President Bush and one who was helping Terri refused. She was summarily fired and walked out the door straight over to the freeper friendly shop where the Schindler family is in the back, to spill the beans. One positive note she pointed out is that staff have been careful with Terri and nothing, no drugs, etc., have been administered yet. To my knowledge she has not gone public yet, but clearly crossed the road to our side.

[FR_addict]

Contacting the Florida Senators above is more important than ever.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1368090/posts?page=32#32

Also the Governor's and President's info.

http://www.myflorida.com/myflorida/government/contacts/contactGov.htmlv

E-mail:
Governor Jeb Bush
jeb.bush@myflorida.com

Write:
PL 05 The Capitol
400 South Monroe Street
Tallahassee, FL 32399-0001

Telephone:
850/488-4441
Fax: 850/487-0801


White House:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

Mailing Address

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500


Phone Numbers

Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
FAX: 202-456-2461

TTY/TDD

Comments: 202-456-6213
Visitors Office: 202-456-2121
E-Mail
President George W. Bush: president@whitehouse.gov
Vice President Richard Cheney: vice.president@whitehouse.gov