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I/we have see the malpractice trial records. Terri had very severe and prolonged Bulimia Nervosa Disease and it caused her collapse, including her neck and rib injuries when her body slammed on the floor head first. It is well documented by many medical experts in the trial record. This is FACT!

I don't know why the Schindlers are saying Terri was perfectly healthy at the time of the accident. They were at the malpractice trial and Michael lived with the Schindler’s after Terri's collapse because Terri's medical bills had him totally broke. It has been well reported, years back, that both Michael and Terri’s mother had problems/concerns about Terri’s eating disorder. Now everybody says different in the heat of the battle!

Why do the Schindler's think the Jury nailed Terri's OB-GYN for $6 million. (Terri's GP settled out of court) She had Bulimia Nervosa Disease so bad a "blind hog" should have picked it up. The Judge reduced the settlement to $2 million because medical experts indicated because of Terri's severe Bulimia Nervosa Disease progression and damage, Terri only had a life expectancy of 45 years! That is serious disease.

The Schindler’s “star medical expert” that they use in press conferences and on TV is Dr. Hammesfahr.
The only doctor for the Schindler’s that is stating the “rigid neck and strangulation theory” is Dr. Hammersfahr. Dr. William Hammesfahr’s comments regarding what happened to Terri that night and that he can help her get better are frankly highly suspect and lack total credibility. This fact has also been well reflected in the court records.

Secondly, it has well been checked out by knowledgeable source that Dr. Hammesfahr’s noble nomination is phony. This has also been discussed by experts on this subject on TV the last month.

Dr. Hammesfahr’s is currently on probation by the Florida Medical Board, for false advertising and bilking his patient’s making false claims as to his “medical miracles” he can perform for them. The Medical Board nail this quack in February 2003.

Everybody know the Schindler’s are using him for a “mouth piece and a deception ringer” and that is why nobody will help the Schindlers! This is why Attorney General Charlie Crist, and State Attorney Bernie McCabe, (one of our people has already talked with a member of his office on this subject) will not touch this case or help the Schindlers, and why the Court’s always rule against the Schindler’s.

One of our PAC physicians has already "heard" the famed pathologist Dr. Michael Baden, “blew a casket” when he learned that the Schindler’s did not properly disclosed to Greta Van Susteren and him Terri’s horrible Bulimia Nervosa disease progression, causing Baden to make all these stupid statements on TV about Terri’s case.

Low potassium, brittle bone syndrome, heart attacks/cardiac arrest and brain damage, along with multiple system/organ damage ARE classic severe Bulimia disease symptomatology in late stage. It’s basic pathology 101 and Baden is a super pro. He never would have said all his comments had he known the facts.

Yes our PAC physician’s have reviewed the x-ray and report on Terri done a year+ after her collapse. Many of her bone problems are due to her severe Bulimia Nervosa Disease.
HOWEVER - Yes, it does appear that Michael beat Terri and Dr. Baden, and the initial reviewing radiologist, have valid comments here i.e. the radiologist saying “it looked like someone worked her (Terri) over pretty good”.

Also Michael is a big guy with an explosive temper. Terri was 5’3” and “becoming all bones” i.e. a massive loss of muscle tissue common with her disease. With Terri’s Brittle Bone Syndrome, that was resultant from her Bulimia Nervosa Disease, Michael would not have to hit Terri very hard to do some serious skeletal damage, per one of our PAC doctors.

UNDERSTAND I/WE ARE SUPER BEHIND FIGHTING THIS BATTLE TO SAVE TERRI’S LIFE, HAVE CRIMINAL CHARGES BROUGHT AGAINST MICHAEL SCHIAVO AND GEORGE FELOS, AND RETURN TERRI TO HER “BLOOD” PARENTS TO LIVE OUT THE REST OF HER NATURAL LIFE.

HOWEVER ALL THIS SCHINDLER’S BS AND QUACK DOCTORS PLAY RIGHT INTO MICHAEL-FELOS-ACLU & CO HANDS AND TERRI IS DEAD IF THEY DON’T STOP IT IMMEDIATELY.

If the Schindler’s would get honest, and ASAP, plenty of good doctors and witnesses will come to their aid.

Gee, Florida only has one of the best crime labs in the Country that could become involved to him them. You have an FBI District Field office right in Tampa Bay for gosh sakes.

As you may note, there are a lot of frustrated people out their over this situation right now, and I/we are one of them.

Harv

Malpractice suit brings $2-million to woman left in vegetative state

Series: Metro REPORT:[CITY Edition]

http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/sptimes/index.html?ts=1067558394

LAURA GRIFFIN. St. Petersburg Times. St. Petersburg, Fla.: Nov 12, 1992. pg. 3.B

Tuesday night, a jury awarded Mrs. Schiavo and her husband, Michael [Schiavo], more than $2-million in a lawsuit they brought against the gynecologist who never asked about her medical or nutritional history while treating her.

During the trial, attorneys for the Schiavos showed a film of a day in Mrs. Schiavo's life at Sabal Palms Nursing Home in Largo. Although she's in a vegetative state, said St. Petersburg lawyer Glenn Woodworth, "you can tell she has some sense of her predicament."

Woodworth and Miami lawyer Gary Fox maintained that [Stephen] Igel saw Mrs. Schiavo four times over a year and never asked about her nutrition and never noticed the loose skin and stretch marks resulting from her substantial weight loss.

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Although she's only 28, Theresa Schiavo lies day in and day out in a nursing home, left virtually helpless from a heart attack brought on by an eating disorder.

Tuesday night, a jury awarded Mrs. Schiavo and her husband, Michael, more than $2-million in a lawsuit they brought against the gynecologist who never asked about her medical or nutritional history while treating her.

During the trial, attorneys for the Schiavos showed a film of a day in Mrs. Schiavo's life at Sabal Palms Nursing Home in Largo. Although she's in a vegetative state, said St. Petersburg lawyer Glenn Woodworth, "you can tell she has some sense of her predicament."

"It's a tragic case," Woodworth said. "She was on the threshold of her life. They were ready to start a family . . . (On the film) she knows her husband and looks into his eyes."

As a child, Mrs. Schiavo was heavy. As a teenager, she weighed about 200 pounds. But she weighed only 120 pounds at age 25. She kept her weight off through a dangerous eating disorder, bulimia, which involves vomiting after eating.

The couple had been married about six years when Mrs. Schiavo began thinking she was pregnant because she kept missing her menstrual periods.

Her family doctor referred her to Dr. Stephen Igel, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Clearwater. But she wasn't pregnant, Woodworth said. She was missing her periods because of poor nutrition.

Woodworth and Miami lawyer Gary Fox maintained that Igel saw Mrs. Schiavo four times over a year and never asked about her nutrition and never noticed the loose skin and stretch marks resulting from her substantial weight loss.
"There were no questions about weight loss, eating habits or anything," Fox said. "She had significant stretch marks on her thighs. This was something a prudent gynecologist would not miss."

Igel treated only the symptoms, he said, not the cause.
On Feb. 24, 1990, after a year of treatment, Michael Schiavo heard a thud in the bathroom. When he went to see what happened, he found his wife crumpled on the floor. She had suffered a heart attack, Fox said.

"I think there are a lot of gynecologists out there who are treating women with Teri's symptoms in an ordinary way," Fox said. "But it's not an ordinary problem."

Igel's attorney, Kenneth Deacon, could not be reached for comment Wednesday.

Fox said Igel's attorney contended that Mrs. Schiavo should have disclosed her problem and that even if he had suspected and asked, she probably would have kept it from him because bulimics are often secretive.

The jury agreed partly with the defense. They originally awarded the Schiavos more than $6-million but found that she was 70 percent at fault. So they subtracted her liability from the award, bringing it down to $2-million, her attorneys said.

The verdict could have been higher, Woodworth said, if the jury hadn't found that because of the bulimia, Mrs. Schiavo had a life expectancy of only 17 more years.

Woodworth said he and Fox questioned the jury's decision to decrease the award and will discuss with Circuit Judge Phillip Federico whether it is legal.

The couple also sued Mrs. Schiavo's family doctor, Joel Prawer, but Prawer settled earlier this year for an undisclosed amount, Woodworth said.

Michael Schiavo has stayed with his wife and takes care of her, Fox said. He is in nursing school so that he can care for her on his own, Fox said.

"This is the kind of guy whose wedding vows are just that - vows," Fox said. "Ironically, Tuesday (the day of the verdict) was their eighth wedding anniversary."

To Fox, the case represents a larger problem: a dangerous societal pressure placed on women to be thin.

"I think it's important that women who have these eating disorders know the downside. I don't think they know how dangerous it is," he said. - LAURA GRIFFIN

Copyright Times Publishing Co. Nov 12, 1992

Before debate over whether she should die,
Terri Schiavo had a life

ALLEN G. BREED
Associated Press
Posted on Fri, Oct. 24, 2003

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. - DIANE MEYER can recall only one time her best friend Terri Schiavo really got angry with her. It was 1981, and it haunts her still.

Excerpts from article on Weight Issue:

Her mother, Mary, says Terri would spend hours in her room, arranging her more than 100 stuffed animals into a private zoo.

Always heavy, Terri hated sports, except horseback riding, which fed her love for animals.

Terri never said anything about her weight, but her mother always sensed it bothered her.

"She cried a lot when she went to get clothes," Mrs. Schindler says.

Terri didn't go to school dances, not even her senior prom.

Instead, she and her friends would go to the movies. Meyer remembers they went to see "An Officer and a Gentleman" four times in one day.

She was a huge fan of the TV show "Starsky and Hutch." Sue Pickwell figures she and Terri wrote hundreds of letters to co-star Paul Michael Glaser, and "I remember the excitement when they finally wrote back, or their people wrote back."

Terri was naive and somewhat gullible. When she couldn't get her Christmas tree to stand up straight one year, her father, Bob, told her to take it back to the lot and have them put it in the "tree straightener."

"She called me about an hour later and said, 'What did you do to me? They all laughed at me.'

"Terri has always been very tenderhearted, especially when it came to animals. She came home crying one night, saying she thought she'd run over a rabbit or squirrel. Knowing she would be devastated if she saw the animal the next day, her brother Bobby went out and threw it in the bushes, then assured Terri he'd found nothing.

When her yellow Labrador collapsed, Terri performed mouth-to-nose resuscitation on him, her mother says."She was puffing away for all she was worth," she says. "He died in her arms."

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Her junior year, Mrs. Schindler took Terri to the doctor to ask about her weight, which had ballooned to over 200 pounds on a 5-3 frame.

The doctor told her Terri would lose the weight when she was ready.

After graduation from Archbishop Wood Catholic School, she was ready. On a structured diet program, she got her weight down to 140 to 150 pounds initially.

"Terri has always been beautiful from the inside out," Meyer says. "And then when she lost all the weight, she really became quite beautiful on the outside as well. What was inside she allowed to shine out at that point."
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Terri enrolled in Bucks County Community College with the goal of working with animals, and there she met Michael Schiavo.

Mrs. Schindler says Terri went head over heels.

"It was the first guy who ever, ever paid any attention to her," she says.
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Meyer says Terri talked about how gorgeous Schiavo was and how he was always telling her she was beautiful.
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He was the "Officer and a Gentleman" to a chubby girl who had lived vicariously through Danielle Steele romances, Meyer believes.
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After a little more than a year of dating, the two were married in 1984. Terri wrote to her favorite entertainer, John Denver, to ask him to sing at her wedding, but he never replied.
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By a year later, Terri had gained a little of her weight back. Meyer says Terri told her that Schiavo had seen her high school graduation picture and warned her "if she ever got fat like that again he'd divorce her."

"I said, 'He's probably kidding,'" she says. "But it was upsetting to her."
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Scott Schiavo, Michael's brother, says it was the Schindlers who rode Terri about her weight. He says her brother sometimes showed one of Terri's old driver's licenses for a laugh.

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In 1986, the couple moved to Florida. Schiavo managed restaurants, and Terri got a clerk's job at an insurance agency.

Mrs. Schindler says Terri began complaining that Schiavo never wanted to go anywhere. When she would go visit her parents or a friend from work, Mrs. Schindler says, Schiavo would check the mileage on her car."She could go to those places," she says. "Any other place, he gave her crap."

Jackie Rhodes, who worked and socialized with Terri, says Schiavo would frequently call his wife at work and leave her in tears. She says she and Terri had each discussed divorcing their husbands and moving in together.

"We actually discussed how much we could afford and where we would want to live," she says.

But Scott Schiavo, Michael's brother, says he wasn't aware of any trouble in the marriage. And when the couple went to his grandmother's funeral, Scott Schiavo says, Terri told him she would not want to be put on a respirator, as the grandmother had been.

"Terri turned around and looked right in my eyes, and I can still see her sitting there on my lefthand side," he recalls, repeating testimony he gave in court. "

'If I'm gone, just let me go.'"Bobby Schindler says his sister began talking about leaving Schiavo in 1989. "She said she wished she had the strength or the energy or the know-how to get a divorce," he says.

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By this time, Terri's weight had dropped below 120 and Mrs. Schindler says she confronted her daughter about how thin she was getting.

Terri's reply: "I eat, Mom. I eat."
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Potassium disorders and heart failure have been linked to anorexia, but the family doesn't think Terri had a real eating disorder. (IN DENIAL-GT)

The day before she collapsed, Terri had complained to her mother that she was having menstrual problems, and that she wasn't satisfied with her doctor. Mrs. Schindler said they'd get together after the weekend and find her a new one.
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SEVERE AND LONG-TERM BULIMIA NERVOSA PROVEN IN 1992 JURY TRIAL. WAS THIS A CONSPIRACY TO!

JUST ASKING EVERONE ELSES OPINION?

Eating Disorders & Bone Fractures

International Journal of Eating Disorders
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Posted on 10/28/2003 6:36 PM PST by Normally a Lurker

Even years after a person is diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, they have twice the risk of bone fractures as their peers without the eating disorder, new study findings from Denmark show.

The findings suggest that damage caused to bones by eating disorders may be permanent, according to a report in the International Journal of Eating Disorders.

However, it is possible that patients in the study were still struggling with the eating disorder, which may have kept bones from regaining strength, the report indicates.
Previous studies have found that people with eating disorders such as anorexia or bulimia can suffer from weakened bones because of poor nutrition. Experts say that this can increase the risk of osteoporosis and fracture.

In the current investigation, Peter Vestergaard of the Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark and colleagues looked at 2,149 people diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, 1,294 people with bulimia nervosa and 942 people with another type of eating disorder. All of the patients - more than 90% female - were compared to a group of over 4,000 healthy people.

Compared to those without an eating disorder, patients were about twice as likely to break a bone after their diagnosis and the risk remained elevated for up to 10 years after diagnosis. The fracture risk was also elevated in those with other eating disorders, but not as dramatically as in patients with anorexia.

The researchers believe anorexia may cause permanent damage to the skeleton, which is later compounded by the loss of bone that can occur with aging. On the other hand, the researchers point out that even after diagnosis and treatment, the eating disorder may not have been completely reversed, resulting in continued nutritional deficits and further decreases in bone mass.

"In conclusion," the authors write, "an increased risk of fractures is present many years after diagnosis of anorexia nervosa, and the group of other eating disorders. These findings call for more awareness of potential skeletal complications linked to eating disorders in general."

Eating Disorders & Bone Fractures

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1010095/posts?page=1

The following was extracted from an article on Eating Disorders: Anorexia and Bulimia in "Health and Age" (see link)

One of the most serious effects of anorexia are hormonal changes, which can have severe health consequences:

· Reproductive hormones, including estrogen and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), are lower. Estrogen is important for healthy hearts and bones. DHEA, a weak male hormone, may also be important for bone health and for other functions.
· Thyroid hormones are lower. ·
· Stress hormones are higher. ·
· Growth hormones are lower.
Children and adolescents with anorexia may experience retarded growth. ·

The result of many of these hormonal abnormalities in women is long-term, irregular or absent menstruation (amenorrhea). This can occur early on in anorexia, even before severe weight loss. Over time this causes infertility, bone loss, and other problems. Low weight alone may not be sufficient to cause amenorrhea. Extreme fasting and purging behaviors may play an even stronger role in hormonal disturbance.

Psychologic Effects and Suicide Adolescents with eating behaviors associated with anorexia (fasting, frequent exercise to lose weight, and self-induced vomiting) are at high risk for anxiety and depression in young adulthood. Some studies estimate that between 12% and 18% of people who are anorexic also abuse alcohol or drugs. Even worse, suicide has been estimated to account for as many as half the deaths in anorexia. In one study, suicide rates occurred in 1.4% of women with anorexia. The study, however, only looked at female death records. Such records may not have always recorded anorexia as an accompanying condition, so the incidence of suicide in anorexia may be much higher.

Heart Disease Heart disease is the most common medical cause of death in people with severe anorexia. The effects of anorexia on the heart are as follows:
· Dangerous heart rhythms, including slow rhythms known as bradycardia, may develop. Such abnormalities can show up even in teenagers with anorexia. ·
· Blood flow is reduced. ·
· Blood pressure may drop. ·
· The heart muscles starve, losing size. ·
· Cholesterol levels tend to rise. ·

A primary danger to the heart is from abnormalities in the balance of minerals, such as potassium, calcium, magnesium, and phosphate, which are normally dissolved in the body's fluid. The dehydration and starvation that occurs with anorexia can reduce fluid and mineral levels and produce a condition known as electrolyte imbalance. Electrolytes (e.g., calcium and potassium) are critical for maintaining the electric currents necessary for a normal heartbeat.

An imbalance in these electrolytes can be very serious and even life threatening unless fluids and minerals are replaced. Heart problems are a particular risk when anorexia is compounded by bulimia and the use of ipecac, a drug that causes vomiting.

Long-Term Outlook on Fertility After treatment and an increase in weight, estrogen levels are usually restored and periods resume. In severe anorexia, however, even after treatment, normal menstruation never returns in 25% of such patients.
· If a woman with anorexia becomes pregnant before regaining normal weight, she faces a higher risk for miscarriage, cesarean section, and for having an infant with low birth weight or birth defects.

She is also at higher risk for postpartum depression. ·
· Women with anorexia who seek fertility treatments have lower chances for success. ·
Long-Term Effect on Bones and Growth

Almost 90% of women with anorexia experience osteopenia (loss of bone minerals) and 40% have osteoporosis (more advanced loss of bone density). Up to two-thirds of children and adolescent girls with anorexia fail to develop strong bones during their critical growing period. Boys with anorexia also suffer from stunted growth. The less the patient weighs, the more severe the bone loss. Women with anorexia who also binge-purge face an even higher risk for bone loss.

Bone loss in women is mainly due to low estrogen levels that occur with anorexia. Other biologic factors in anorexia also may contribute to bone loss, including high levels of stress hormones (which impair bone growth) and low levels of calcium, certain growth factors, and DHEA (a weak male hormone).Weight gain, unfortunately, does not completely restore bone. Only achieving regular menstruation as soon as possible can protect against permanent bone loss. The longer the eating disorder persists the more likely the bone loss will be permanent.

Testosterone levels decline in boys as they lose weight, which also can affect their bone density. In young boys with anorexia, weight restoration produces some catch-up growth, but it may not produce full growth.

Neurological Problems People with severe anorexia may suffer nerve damage that affects the brain and other parts of the body. The following nerve-related conditions have been reported:
· Seizures. ·
· Disordered thinking. ·
· Numbness or odd nerve sensations in the hands or feet (a condition called peripheral neuropathy). ·
Brains scans indicate that parts of the brain undergo structural changes and abnormal activity during anorexic states. Some of these changes return to normal after weight gain, but there is evidence that some damage may be permanent.

Still, the extent of the neurologic problems is unclear, and some studies have been unable to determine specific mental problems associated with anorexia.
Blood Problems
Anemia is a common result of anorexia and starvation. A particularly serious blood problem is pernicious anemia, which can be caused by severely low levels of vitamin B12. If anorexia becomes extreme, the bone marrow dramatically reduces its production of blood cells, a life-threatening condition called pancytopenia.
Gastrointestinal Problems
Bloating and constipation are both very common problems in people with anorexia.
Multiorgan Failure

In very late anorexia, the organs simply fail. The main signal for this is elevated levels of liver enzymes, which require immediate administration of calories.

Complications in Diabetic Adolescents
Eating disorders are very serious for young people with type 1 diabetes. The complications of anorexia that affect all patients are even more dangerous in this group of patients. Hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar, for example, is a danger for anyone with anorexia, but it is a particularly dangerous risk for those with diabetes. One study found that 85% of young women with diabetes and eating disorders had retinopathy, damage to the retina in the eye, which can lead to blindness.

3 posted on 10/28/2003 9:48 PM EST by Normally a Lurker

Deciding the Fate of Terri
By ANITA KUMAR
© St. Petersburg Times, published January 25, 2000

Last updated Oct. 24, 2003
Excerpt:

Michael Schiavo thought he had done everything he could to save his wife. In 1990, after she lapsed into a persistent vegetative state from a loss of potassium, he took her to California for experimental treatment. He hired an aide to take her to salons for a beauty make-over. He took her to the mall to buy new clothes, the museum to look at art. He even made tapes of her family and friends, hoping to find a stimulus that would lift her from the her current state.

Tragic Fall

The Schiavos had been married five years when Terri started having abdominal pains and missing her menstrual periods, family members say.
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Her doctors never tested her blood or told her what was wrong, Mrs. Schindler said.

On Feb. 25, 1990, Michael Schiavo woke up about 5 a.m. to use the bathroom. That's when he saw his wife fall on the floor. Her heart stopped beating and she was deprived of oxygen for five minutes before she was taken to the hospital.

Terri Schiavo has not awakened since and currently lives in Palm Gardens nursing home in Largo.

Family members say doctors never discovered why Mrs. Schiavo suffered the loss of potassium that caused the heart attack. Despite several theories, including one that she had an eating disorder, no one has given the family
a clear answer.

^^^(SCHINDLER’S ATTENDED THE MAJORITY OF THE MALPRACTICE TRIAL WHICH WAS ALL ABOUT THE DOCTOR’S MISSING TERRI’S SEVERE BULIMIA NERVOSA-gi)

THE COURT AWARDED OVER $1 MILLION NET TO MICHAEL DUE TO THE DOCTORS NOT PROPERLY DIAGNOSING TERRI'S SEVERE BULIMIA NERVOSA. IF THE SCHINDLER'S ARE GOING TO SAY THAT TERRI NEVER HAD BULIMIA NERVOSA, THE RIGHT THING UNDER GOD IS ALL THE AWARD SETTLEMENT MONEY SHOULD BE GIVEN BACK TO THE PHYSICIAN THAT GOT FLEECED. WHAT DO YOU THINK??

Terri, meanwhile, has remained in a what is termed a "persistent vegetative state" through about 100 doctors visits and countless hospital and nursing homes stays. She breathes and sleeps, blinks and smiles. But she cannot talk and has to be propped up in a chair during the day.

"She had Bulimia Nervosa Disease so bad a "blind hog" should have picked it up"

If this is true and Michael knew about it and since they were seeing the doctors together (Michael claims) to investigate the cause of Terri's infertility, then why would Michael have not himself mentioned this to Terri's doctor? It seems like it just MIGHT be important. < /sarcasm >

"One of our PAC physicians has already "heard" the famed pathologist Dr. Michael Baden, “blew a casket” when he learned that the Schindler’s did not properly disclosed to Greta Van Susteren and him Terri’s horrible Bulimia Nervosa disease progression"

I may be recalling incorrectly, but it seems to me that that particular issue WAS mentioned and Dr. Baden dismissed it as being able to account for that degree of trauma. I didn't see the program but at some point the transcript was posted.

"Everybody know the Schindler’s are using him for a “mouth piece and a deception ringer” and that is why nobody will help the Schindlers!"

It is my understanding that the questions raised against Hammersfahr were dismissed (something to do with his advertising practices as I recall) and were only raised in the first place because of George Felos looking for ways to discredit him.

In any event, there is a right and wrong here and a woman's life is at stake. It is quite obvious to anyone with eyes to see and ANY knowledge of the facts in this case, that Michael Schiavo has clear conflicts of interest which should completely bar him from making ANY decisions whatsoever on behalf of Terri. It is not the integrity of the Schindlers that is at issue.