[JulieRNR21]

Michael Schiavo said that Terri had been seeing a primary doctor & gyn for problems in becoming pregnant.

He said that no blood tests had been given to her. Therefore, he said he sued them for malpractice since her potassium imbalance should have been detected.

He was awarded 1.2 Million, I believe.

[T'wit]

Now we have to wonder, "WHAT potassium imbalance?" Dr. Hammesfahr was pretty adamant about it:

Dr.Hammesfahr: But the medical record clearly shows that there has NEVER been heart attack. Potassium causes damage by causing heart attacks, so we know that potassium is not an issue...

Can you figure what's going on here?

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What doesn't make sense to me, is potassium imbalance (whether hypokalemia[low] or hyperkalemia[high]) is not without symptoms, and sometimes severe symptoms at that.
If she was being monitored by doctors for infertility it seems incomprehensible that some notation of potassium imbalance symptoms wouldn't be on her charts. Not knowing the details of the malpractice lawsuit, I don't know if there was and the doctors didn't do anything or what. It would also seem logical she would have complained to friends or family.
Potassium imbalance can result in cardiac arrest, but an imbalance that severe surely would have produced noticable symptoms beforehand (as was obviously alleged in the lawsuit).
Now, unless it was very early on in the fertility issue, one would think they would have done blood work for hormone levels etc. I've never been to an OB/Gyn checkup where they didn't do at least routine blood work.
Unfortunately, it's difficult to make an informed assessment without the intimate details of the malpractice case and other events surrounding Terri.