[combat_boots]

A couple of years after that, I was present when a noted physician literally turned his back on someone rather than treat the person. I had never seen a doctor do that before. Ever.

[MHGinTN]

Years ago, when I put America, We Need To Tlak on line for free downloading via Freeper Calpernia's website, I actually got calls from a couple of physicians. One was calling from Kansas and berated me for even suggesting that the Hypocratic Oath was relevant in these modern times. The other went right to the edge of threatening me over my opposition to embryonic stem cell exploitation. He could see only the benefits possible from such exploitation of nascent human life. Interesting that the only ones emotionally vested enough to actually call we progressives wanting me to shut up or change my tune. The manuscript remains free for downloading and has been downloaded more than ten thousadn times as of the date I put it on my blogpage and could no longer count the downloads.

[butterdezillion]

The thing that most people didn’t notice was that the autopsy ruled that Terri was unable to swallow at the point of death BECAUSE OF NON-USE. Her injury never made her need the feeding tube. She needed the feeding tube at the end because her husband had ordered her to be medically neglected and/or abused all those years - because HE HAD DECIDED that if she couldn’t walk she would rather be dead.

She couldn’t feed herself at the end because he had insisted many years before that she not be allowed to feed herself.

The ruling that water is a “medicine” for a person who cannot physically walk to the sink to get a drink of water was the beginning of the end for physically disabled people. Her own family could not bring a wet cloth for her to suck on because that would have been the illegal dispensing of “medicine” .

And I remember reading that a poll was done using the real details of Terri’s situation but without using a name. And the vast majority of people supported the Schindlers in that scenario. But when they mentioned the name of Schiavo the numbers were reversed, which showed that the whole reason that there was public support for Michael Schiavo and the pro-death people was because THE MEDIA HAD LIED ABOUT THE FACTS OF THE CASE.

Geez, was that a foreshadowing of the current death of America because of media lies about Obama’s eligibility?