Posted on 12/29/2004 7:16:22 AM PST by floriduh voter
The Terri Schindler Schiavo Daily Threads are created month to month as we watch local and national news regarding Terri and her family.
Since Terri's supporters are in every time zone, you may see something FIRST. Please share news with us that you don't see here already. Now, why would you want to do that? Terri's Daily Thread for September/October of 2004 was viewed over 15,000 times. Terri's November Daily Thread was viewed over 6,000 times. December's thread is over 3,000 views.
More and more good folks are finding out about Terri and that judicial tyranny would take her life, but for lots and lots of prayer and non-stop lobbying of relatives, friends, clergy, our leaders, the media, a passerby, a cashier - ANYONE who you feel comfortable chatting with.
Folks always want to know how can this be in America or on earth for that matter? Unfortunately, this is really happening to an innocent woman who just celebrated her 41st birthday. She's not the only one but she's the one with devoted parents and siblings who knows what's in Terri's heart. Terri has a strong will to live. That's apparent. It's been 14 years.
Besides, feeding tubes have been around practically since the Civil War. They are not high tech devices. Terri is "not hooked up to machines". Her feeding tube is the diameter of a piece of spaghetti.
Talkin' about Terri is the best way to lobby for her. It is a salespitch to save her life and subsequently, many lives. If you've never sold anything in your life, START NOW. START WITH TERRI.
See Terri's flash movies if you need more information. You can see for yourself that's she's interactive and follows the doctor's instructions.
Visit: http://www.terrisfight.org
NOTE: Terri's December Dailies are noted as a source above. There are lots of important links at the very top of that thread. If you missed Terri's Celebration of Life, you can click on it from there.
So the deal isn't that Terri can't swallow at all, it's that she can't swallow enough to sustain herself, right? That's peachy, just peachy!!
How do they know she can't? They haven't given her a chance to try.
Well, that's what I'm implying. It's ridiculous to say that she can't swallow at all, because we all know that she does swallow her own saliva. Therefore, she needs to have therapy to regain control of those muscles. Even if she didn't or were never able to, that's not a good enough reason to pull that feeding tube...ever! I just get so mad at the logic that Michael and his minions try to put over on everyone. They make me so ill!
They're not Republican judges in any real sense of the word; They are RINOs (Republicans in Name Only). They are using the Republican Party for their own personal gain.
They know that the average voter prefers Republican judges, so they chose to run as Republicans to get elected.
Thank you for the phone number. It is time for Mr. Grogan to DEAL with the correct facts otherwise known as the TRUTH!
Department of Health connection to Florida Partnership for End-of-Life Care connected to Office of Elder Affairs; both connected to Hospice of Florida Suncoast, Inc. (the people who are accommodating Michael in trying to murder Terri and also holding Terri hostage, with sensory deprivation Terrorist style. DOH not doing anything to get Terri out of this mess but in bed with Partnership for End-of-Life Care, etc.!!!! Ken Goodman says Terri permanently unconscious for 13 years!
Google -> "Florida Partnership for End-Of-Life Care" "die"
Department of Health (DOH) and Florida Partnership for End-of-Life Care
http://www.doh.state.fl.us/workforce/ems1/Administration/MedclDir/EOLCInstctrManual503.pdf
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http://www.doh.state.fl.us/workforce/ems1/Administration/MedclDir/EndofLifeCareCurlum503.ppt
[PPT] End of Life Care for Emergency Medical Services Providers
File Format: Microsoft Powerpoint 97 - View as HTML
... The Florida Partnership for End-of-Life Care. End-of-Life Care ... Define and
discuss the stages of grief and reactions to death and dying as defined by ...
www.doh.state.fl.us/workforce/ems1/ Administration/MedclDir/EndofLifeCareCurlum503.ppt - Similar pages
[PDF] Florida End-of-Life Care For the Emergency Medical Services ...
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... The Florida Partnership for End-of-Life Care is a collaboration of ... it may
make the process of life and death a little more pleasant or at least ...
www.doh.state.fl.us/workforce/ems1/ Administration/MedclDir/EOLCInstctrManual503.pdf - Similar pages
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HFA Publications - Statewide Hospice Clergy End-of-Life Education ...
... or professionally with terminal illness, death, and the process of grief. ...
of Community Coalitions of the Florida Partnership for End-Of-Life Care, ...
https://www.hospicefoundation.org/ hfaPublications/clergyEducation/III.asp - 14k - Cached - Similar pages
HFA Publications - E-Newsletter - March 2001
... or professionally with terminal illness, death, and the process of grief. ...
and is part of the Florida Partnership for End of Life Care of the Robert ...
www.hospicefoundation.org/ hfaPublications/eNewsletter/2001mar.asp - 13k - Cached - Similar pages
NursingCenter - Professional Development - CE Article
... the location of death (in relation to patients’ wishes), hospice use, ...
the Florida Partnership for End-of-Life Care has established the state's first ...
www.nursingcenter.com/prodev/ce_article.asp?tid=411607 - 82k - Cached - Similar pages
NursingCenter - Professional Development - CE Test
... The report’s major focus is encouraging patients to choose to die at home.
... Which of the following has the Florida Partnership for End-of-Life Care ...
www.nursingcenter.com/prodev/cetest.asp?tid=411607 - 68k - Cached - Similar pages
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[PDF] Starting and Maintaining a Successful End-of-Life Coalition
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... in America, including the Last Acts report, Transforming Death in America: A
State ... of the Florida Partnership for End-of-Life Care. ...
www.thehospicerallyingpoints.org/ startingandmaintainingasuccessfulendoflifecoalition.pdf - Similar pages
FOW
... and UNC Hospice to present a new video examining how families are affected by
the death of children. ... Florida Partnership for End-of-Life Care ...
www.findingourway.net/newsletters/newsletter_11.htm - 58k - Cached - Similar pages
FOW
... One such initiative is the Picturing Death Project, an art installation created
... The Florida Partnership for end-of-life care contains a list of 19 ...
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[PDF] Making Choices
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... in collaboration with the Florida Partnership for End-of-Life Care, a ...
how you will die. Is it not time you. talk about end-of-life planning with ...
elderaffairs.state.fl.us/doea/english/LMD/EOL/EOL.pdf - Similar pages
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http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:X4ultrRb6GoJ:www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/d/x/dxm12/n458/biographies.htm+%22Florida+Partnership+for+End-Of-Life+Care%22+%22die%22&hl=en
Dr. Kenneth Goodman
Kenneth W. Goodman, Ph.D., is founder and director of the University of Miami's Bioethics Program. He holds appointments in the university's Department of Medicine, Department of Philosophy, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, and School of Nursing. He shares responsibility for ethics education of UM students, trainees, and faculty. His research has focused on ethical issues in medical informatics, including bioinformatics or computational genomics, and in epidemiology and public health. Recent work has emphasized end-of-life issues, especially in conjunction with the Florida Partnership for End-of-Life Care, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded initiative to improve care of the dying. Goodman is a PI along with colleagues at the University of Florida and other institutions in this statewide effort.
Dr. Goodman collaborates with a broad variety of institutional ethics committees and review boards, providing education, policy review and consulting services. The university's Bioethics Program produces an annual ethics conference ("Clinical Ethics: Debates, Decisions, Solutions") which is in its 9th year and which has emerged as one of the largest (if not the largest) community ethics conference in the nation.
He is the editor of Ethics, Computing and Medicine: Informatics and the Transformation of Health Care (Cambridge 1998) and co-author of books in artificial intelligence and public health ethics. He is writing a book about ethics and evidence-based medicine for Cambridge University Press and, with a colleague, collecting and commenting on case studies in health informatics.
Selected Recent Bibliography
1. Coughlin S, Soskolne C, Goodman K. Case Studies in Public Health Ethics. Washington, D.C.: American Public Health Association, 1997.
2. Goodman K., ed., Ethics, Computing and Medicine: Informatics and the Transformation of Health Care, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
3. Goodman, K. End-of-Life Algorithms. Journal of Psychology, Public Policy and Law 1998;4:719-727.
4. Goodman K. Philosophy as news: Bioethics, journalism and public policy. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 1999;24:181-200.
5. Nelson W, Angoff N, Binder E, Cooke M, Fleetwood J, Goodlin S, Goodman K, et al. Goals and strategies for teaching death and dying in medical schools. Journal of Palliative Medicine 2000;3:7-16.
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another bit from RobertWoodJohnsonF "RWJF" site
Rate of Hospice Use: Hospice care is a "gold standard" for end-of-life care. However, hospice is not widely used in most states. Furthermore, the average length of stay in hospice has dropped to well below the 60 days considered necessary for people to get maximum benefit. In fact, dying patients commonly have the support of hospice care for less than a week.
http://www.rwjf.org/news/releaseDetail.jsp?id=1037586523372
They have an interactive state report card
http://www.rwjf.org/news/special/means.jhtml
Florida gets (my comments in )
A for Advanced Directives (guess this means it's easy to bump you off)
D for proportion of deaths occuring at home.(Facilities aren't making any money on these)
Hospice use
C grade based on percentage deaths with hospice stays
D grade based on median length of stay in hospice
THis is just a tiny bit of their report card, wish I could copy and paste it but I can't do it.
Google -> "george greer" "ken goodman"
http://www.floridaguardians.com/documents/fsga0702.pdf
[PDF] FLO RID A GUARDIAN FLO RID A GUARDIAN
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... Moderator: Ken Goodman, Ph.D., Miami ... George Greer, Hon. Mel. Grossman, Hon.
Maria Korvick, Hon. Arthur Rothenberg, Hon. Mark Speiser, Hon. ...
www.floridaguardians.com/documents/fsga0702.pdf - Similar pages
Right next to each other:
Saturday General Session - Multicultural Panel
Moderator: Ken Goodman, Ph.D., Miami
Panelists: Marie Etienee, Rabbi Joshua D. Kreindler, and Carlos J. Sandoval, M.D.
This plenary session will make attendees aware of cultural diversities that might negatively influence their decisionmaking abilities for their clients. You will increase your awareness of differences in belief systems and how others may view life issues.
Statewide Judicial Panel
Moderator: Scott Solkoff, Esq.
Panelists: Hon. Nancy Alley, Hon. George Greer, Hon. Mel Grossman, Hon. Maria Korvick, Hon. Arthur Rothenberg, Hon. Mark Speiser, Hon. Patricia Thomas, and Hon. David Seth Walker
This panel will respond to presubmitted questions from the FSGA membership on issues revolving around the courts perspective on current hot issues facing the profession of guardianship.
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http://faculty.smu.edu/tmayo/schiavo_timeline.pdf
KEY EVENTS IN THE CASE OF THERESA MARIE SCHIAVO
Steven Haidar, Dartmouth College/University of Miami
Kathy Cerminara, Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad Law Center
This content may be reproduced for non-commercial, education purposes only, with
appropriate attribution to the source. For more information on copyright, visit the University of
Miami Ethics Programs web site at www.ethics.miami.edu. Please send comments,
suggestions and corrections to Ken Goodman, UM Ethics Programs, at ethics@miami.edu.
News media and others seeking comment from Florida Bioethics Network leaders should call
305-243-5723.
Google:
"Kathy Cerminara" "wolfson"
"Kathy Cerminara" "right to die"
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Kathy+Cerminara%22+%22wolfson%22&btnG=Google+Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=%22Kathy+Cerminara%22++%22right+to+die%22&btnG=Search
Google:
"Kathy Cerminara" "wolfson"
"Kathy Cerminara" "right to die"
http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:Ca0zjR5-dOAJ:www.nova.edu/cwis/vpaa/highlights/may2204.html+%22Kathy+Cerminara%22+%22wolfson%22&hl=en
Professor Kathy Cerminara co-authored The Right to Die
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http://www.luc.edu/law/activities/opportunities/law_death_dying.shtml
Description of the Conference Speakers and Topics
William Colby, who will be our keynote speaker, is a Partner at Shook, Hardy and Bacon in Kansas City, Missouri. He was the attorney for the Cruzan family on the Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health, 497 U.S. 261 (1990), which eventually went to the Supreme Court. Cruzan is considered the first case on the laws of death and dying to go to the Supreme Court. Mr. Colby has written several publications including the book The Long Goodbye, a commentary on the death of Nancy Cruzan. His book was highly acclaimed. He has made multiple television appearances and is often times a keynote speaker for events on this topic. He is currently a Fellow at the Center for Practical Bioethics in Kansas City (formerly Midwest Bioethics Center), and taught recently at the University of Kansas School of Law.
Other speakers include academics, practitioners and professors from around the country such as: Annette Clark (Seattle University), Dr. Martha Twaddle (Palliative and Care Center Hospice of the North Shore), Father Grogan (Neiswanger Institute and Provena Health), Barbara Noah (University of Florida), Father O'Rourke (Neiswanger Insitute), Lois Shepherd (Florida State University), Kathy Cerminara (Nova Southeastern), Norman Cantor (Rutgers University), Rabbi Bentley (Congregation Kol Ami) and Arthur LaFrance (Lewis and Clark University).
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http://www.nsulaw.nova.edu/alumni/documents/NSU%20Lawyer2004.pdf
Associate Professor Kathy Cerminara was a member of the planning committee for the NSU health care conference, "A Glimpse of the Future of Health Care in America 2004," addressing obesity, mental health, wellness and fitness, purchasing medication from the internet, and importing prescription drugs from Canada. She was asked by Aspen Publishers to review their Hospital Law Manual. She holds monthly roundtable discussions on the subject of advance directives and end-of-life care with HPD medical students in geriatric rotations. The publishers of Summons included Professor Cerminara's article, "Advance Directives in the United States" in its summer issue and "Futile Treatment in the United States" in its autumn issue. She also led a roundtable discussion about building health law programs at the annual "Health Law Teachers Conference," sponsored by the American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics. Professor Cerminara's article "Taking a Closer Look at the Managed Care Class Actions" was highlighted by the editors of the "In The Law Reviews" sectcion of Health Law Week. She addressed the Aventura-Hollywood Chapter of the Brandeis Universyt National Women's Committee on the topic of "End-of-Life Medical Care in Florida: How to Get What You Want (Or How to Avoid Getting What You Don't Want)." Professor Cerminara was a moderator and panel originator at the Southwestern Association of Law Schools annual meeting.
Ask for the Fla House & Senate to get a new bill to the florida to protect Terri and future Terri's. Grand Jury would be nice but can we trust such a panel in secret behind closed doors?
It is upsetting that the local GOP backs Greer instead of Governor Jeb Bush. Their priorities are all wrapped up in our inept irresponsible judges.
Instead of bothering to do that, many of those orgs you listed, ARE ONLY INTERESTED IN MAKING A NEW CLASS OF AMERICANS called THE DYING and who decides who THE DYING ARE?
judges, the aclu and attorneys who run murder franchises, formerly known as estate attorneys.
Terri is NOT DYING but they're sure trying to starve her to death as their prize, as their precedent to SPREAD EUTHANASIA FROM NOT ONLY THE TERMINALLY ILL BUT TO INCLUDE THE ELDERLY AND DISABLED ADULTS AND CHILDREN.
EUTHANASIA IS ILLEGAL IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA BUT IT'S HAPPENING. THERE IS NO LAW ENFORCEMENT OVERSIGHT. That's why we are here helping Terri.
http://www.rollye.net/listen.html (RE: TERRI)
That's a new number that WASN'T AVAILABLE in 2003. Maybe they've been preparing for an onslaught of national outrage and the need for a full blown investigation re: why this one disabled woman's civil rights are being violated, ending in an untimely death I call MURDER BY MEDICAID?
heavy call volume, that's good. There's no other pressing issue here at this time. No other...
"Instead of bothering to do that, many of those orgs you listed, ARE ONLY INTERESTED IN MAKING A NEW CLASS OF AMERICANS called THE DYING and who decides who THE DYING ARE?"
Apparently, they decide who, how and when.
You are referring to making calls to our reps. etc. right?
LABYAK HAS LOTS OF BUSINESSES BESIDES THE HOSPICE OF SUNCOAST.
Just keep in mind the Felos can say whatever he wants to. He is not a doctor. Some attorneys are also doctors ya know. Not him. Felos is spinning himself into a dither. If you saw him in person, his transparency is very obvious imo. The Judge is almost blind though so don't expect Greer to ever see the truth.
The Clearwater Bar is to Greer as Chemical Ali is to Saddam Hussein. Always mining for victims (wards).
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