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To: Shisan; BellStar

I agree.

This isn't CSI, either. It will take time, even though the autopsy itself is done. To which I say, take as much time as you all need there to do a good thorough job.

If michael was SO desirous of proving that Terri was PVS, why wasn't a PET scan done, at least?

lol, I heard Dr. Baden say "It will be interesting now to know if she was PVS..." Yeah, like that helps her now that she's irrevocably, irretrievably, most sincerely dead.


18 posted on 04/02/2005 6:48:01 AM PST by cyn (it's sarcasm, but Jim King really said it.)
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http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/johansen200503160848.asp

Terri’s [PVS] diagnosis was arrived at without the benefit of testing that most neurologists would consider standard for diagnosing PVS. One such test is MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging). MRI is widely used today, even for ailments as simple as knee injuries — but Terri has never had one. Michael has repeatedly refused to consent to one. The neurologists I have spoken to have reacted with shock upon learning this fact. One such neurologist is Dr. Peter Morin. He is a researcher specializing in degenerative brain diseases, and has both an M.D. and a Ph.D. in biochemistry from Boston University.

In the course of my conversation with Dr. Morin, he made reference to the standard use of MRI and PET (Positron Emission Tomography) scans to diagnose the extent of brain injuries. He seemed to assume that these had been done for Terri. I stopped him and told him that these tests have never been done for her; that Michael had refused them.

There was a moment of dead silence.

“That’s criminal,” he said, and then asked, in a tone of utter incredulity: “How can he continue as guardian? People are deliberating over this woman’s life and death and there’s been no MRI or PET?” He drew a reasonable conclusion: “These people [Michael Schiavo, George Felos, and Judge Greer] don’t want the information.” Dr. Morin explained that he would feel obligated to obtain the information in these tests before making a diagnosis with life and death consequences. . . .

. . .Other neurologists have concurred with Dr. Morin’s opinion. Dr. Thomas Zabiega, who trained at the University of Chicago, said, “Any neurologist who is objective would say ‘Yes’” to the question, “Should Terri be given an MRI?”


22 posted on 04/02/2005 7:02:15 AM PST by cyn (it's sarcasm, but Jim King really said it.)
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