That was the same Dr. Cranford speaking to her in the video, asking her to open her eyes. When she did open her eyes wide, Dr. Cranford congratulated her: "Good job! Good job, young lady!"
So much for Terri being deaf.
Dummies, aren't they? You have to wonder if this guy is working a jail someplace : )
NOHLGREN (11/10/03): The single most dramatic moment occurred when William Hammesfahr, a Clearwater neurologist picked by the Schindlers, asked Schiavo to open her eyes.
At first, her eyelids barely flutter. She slowly turns her head toward Hammesfahr, gradually opening her eyes. Then her eyebrows lift into an exaggerated arch—the kind of face a cartoonist might draw to show astonishment.
A lay person could easily conclude that she somehow tapped into a latent reservoir of cognition, even if just for a second. Hammesfahr and her parents bubble with excitement.
"Good job!" the doctor exults. "Good job, young lady!"
But she never pulls it off again, or anything remotely like it. For nearly an hour, her parents and the doctor tell her to open her eyes, close her eyes, look this way, look that way—with little apparent response.
Judge Greer counted.
"By the court's count, (Hammesfahr) gave 105 commands to Terri Schiavo and, at his direction, Mrs. Schindler gave an additional six commands," Greer wrote. "He asked her 61 questions and Mrs. Schindler asked her an additional 11 questions. The court saw few actions that could be considered responsive to either those commands or those questions."
Hmmmmm. Dr. Hammesfahr. He's the Nobel Prize nomineee, isn't he? The one Judge Greer called the "self-promoter"? The one who testified in court that he had treated patients worse off than Terri Schiavo yet offered no names, no case studies, no videos and no test results to support his claim?
Terri was deaf. Terri was blind. She could no more comprehend what she was hearing than she could follow a balloon with her eyes. You are either ignorant of the facts of this case or you believe I am. Either way, you're making a mistake.
I fully expect you to now slink away, knowing who you're dealing with. In anticipation of that, I'll say, "Adios".
I apologize Twit for leading you astray on that video. Your last sentence is still correct however. Here is the REAL Dr. Cranford video that shows him talking to Terri and acknowledging her responses.