"There has been a kind of nihilism towards these patients. This represents a cultural shift," says Joseph J. Fins For too long they have been viewed as non-human.
1 posted on
02/04/2010 5:25:31 AM PST by
wagglebee
To: cgk; Coleus; cpforlife.org; narses; Salvation; 8mmMauser
2 posted on
02/04/2010 5:29:52 AM PST by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: BykrBayb; floriduh voter; Lesforlife; Sun; Dante3; MarMema
3 posted on
02/04/2010 5:32:22 AM PST by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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4 posted on
02/04/2010 5:32:50 AM PST by
wagglebee
("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
To: wagglebee
Researchers at two centers, in England and Belgium, used functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tests on 54 patients with severe brain injury.And yet productive citizens in those countries wait an average of 9 months to obtain an MRI, under the socialized healthcare systems.
5 posted on
02/04/2010 5:34:19 AM PST by
CholeraJoe
(Deja Moo - The feeling that you have heard this BS before.)
To: wagglebee
It is a shame when sociological factors blind medicine to science that is right there for the taking.
8 posted on
02/04/2010 6:01:23 AM PST by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: wagglebee
Fascinating article - now I can more fully grasp the horror that Terri Schiavo endured.
Bastards.
9 posted on
02/04/2010 6:09:18 AM PST by
Psalm 73
("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
To: wagglebee
Then the researchers used the technique to see if it might enable patients to answer simple yes-no questions, such as "do you have any brothers?" Patients were instructed to answer by imagining one of the two scenarios—playing tennis if the answer was yes, for example, or walking around one's home if no. One of the four vegetative patients responded correctly to the questions, said Adrian M. Owen, a neuroscientist at the Medical Research Council in the U.K. and one of the study's authors. Most of the trolls I've seen on the pro-life threads aren't capable of this. They're certainly not capable of seeing the irony.
10 posted on
02/04/2010 6:09:22 AM PST by
BykrBayb
(Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
To: wagglebee
Terri Schindler's murder may someday be avenged ping. :*(
Praying for those poor helpless souls who have been deemed "unworthy of living" in this world!
11 posted on
02/04/2010 6:22:08 AM PST by
pillut48
("Stand now. Stand together. Stand for what is right."-Gov.Sarah Palin, "Going Rogue")
To: wagglebee
12 posted on
02/04/2010 6:33:29 AM PST by
massmike
(...So this is what happens when OJ's jury elects the president....)
To: wagglebee
I was so delighted to see this study. Many of us already knew this. Perhaps with this study, some lives can be saved—although it’s too late for many.
13 posted on
02/04/2010 6:56:37 AM PST by
MizSterious
(Do you not think an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm? John Page, 1744-1808)
To: wagglebee
Just because nothing is capable of getting out, doesn’t mean nothing is capable of getting in.
15 posted on
02/04/2010 7:14:34 AM PST by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: wagglebee
Duh. GOD! This makes me angry. I thought they knew everything. I thought they knew who was alive and who was a vegetable. I thought they could show you how their brain was gone. I thought we were just supposed to believe anything anybody with an MD behind their name told us and like it.
16 posted on
02/04/2010 7:22:53 AM PST by
ichabod1
( I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet.)
To: wagglebee
18 posted on
02/04/2010 9:58:47 AM PST by
Dante3
To: wagglebee
20 posted on
02/04/2010 5:45:57 PM PST by
Dajjal
(Obama is an Ericksonian NLP hypnotist.)
To: wagglebee
Picture this scenario - Researcher "Do you want to live?"
Human Being who can't communicate except with brain waves "Yes."
25 posted on
02/04/2010 6:26:26 PM PST by
floriduh voter
(Charlie Crist, you're sinking in the polls faster than a sinkhole on the interstate.)
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