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To: hocndoc
"Note: not everyone who shows aspiration on the barium swallowing test - defined as "failure" in the notes on Terri - undergo the placement of a feeding tube."

Totally irrelevant. I don't care about other people. We're talking about Terri's swallow tests, which were all negative. The feeding tube was in place for 10 years -- no one even discussed it until 2003.

TheWolfson Report, dated December 1, 2003, concludes, "the neurological and speech pathology evidence in the file support the contention that she cannot take oral nutrition or hydration".

503 posted on 04/24/2005 8:08:07 PM PDT by robertpaulsen
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To: robertpaulsen


The actual effectiveness of Terri's swallowing, her actual ability to take in sufficient hydration and nutrition by natural means, is irrelevant to the fact that Greer had no legal standing to prohibit natural means, only "medical" or "artificial" treatment.


He had no right to prohibit food and water by natural means, since Florida law did not give him authority over spoons and ice chips, only over tubes and medications.

He broke Florida law and should be prosecuted and tried for breaking that law.


508 posted on 04/24/2005 8:55:09 PM PDT by hocndoc (Choice is the # 1 killer in the US)
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