[Wampus SC]

Thanks for the article, Libwhacker. This will give the naysayers something to think about.

Ohioan from Florida, can we get a Terri ping please?

[amdgmary]

Ping to the New York Times article

New Signs of Awareness Seen in Some Brain-Injured Patients

"Dr. Bernat said findings from studies like these would be relevant to cases like that of Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman with brain damage who has been kept alive for years against her husband's wishes. In that case, which drew the attention of Gov. Jeb Bush and the Legislature, relatives of Ms. Schiavo disagreed about her condition, and a brain-imaging test - once it has been standardized - could help determine whether brain damage has extinguished awareness."

[tutstar]

Very good article.

[RadioAstronomer]

If I was that brain-damaged, I would rather be dead. This I can say with absolute certainty.

[Prince Charles]

More power to Terri and her parents in their fight with evil.

[syriacus]

The patients are, she added, "more human than we imagined in the past, and it is unconscionable not to aggressively pursue research efforts to evaluate them and develop therapeutic techniques."

Amen.

[hershey]

Amazing, and a great step forward.

[FreepinforTerri]

Finally, science has caught up with what loving families have instinctively known forever- that their brain-damaged family members react to them. Now it's scientifically proven.

What are they going to prove next, that unborn babies are human beings, too?

DUH.

[Schiminie]

Amazing article...

Thanks for posting it!



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[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

"This study gave me goose bumps, because it shows this possibility of this profound isolation, that these people are there, that they've been there all along, even though we've been treating them as if they're not," said Dr. Joseph Fins, chief of the medical ethics division of New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center.

God, what a moron!!! "We've been treating them as if they're not [there]." How does a moron such as this end up as chief of ethics?

[Pajamajan]

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[TAdams8591]

"He said one study had found that as many as30 percent of patients identified as being unaware, in a persistently vegetative state, were not. They were minimally conscious.

Moreover, mental states can change over time, and some patients have almost completely recovered function after being thought vegetative"

The above bears repeating.

We have no RIGHT starving anyone to death vegetative (which Terri Schiavo is NOT) or NOT vegetative but badly brain damaged.

[TAdams8591]

"Thousands of brain-damaged people who are treated as if they are almost completely unaware may in fact hear and register what is going on around them but be unable to respond, a new brain-imaging study suggests."

When I cared for some patients at 19 I thought this was an obvious possibility and treated vegetative patients with this in mind. At that time, when I mentioned this to friends attending Nursing School they told me the instructors taught them that this was a REAL possibility. I can't believe this issue is being raised as if it's the first time it has occurred to the medical community. It's NOT.

In society's zeal to institute Euthanasia, it's something many of the people who should know better may have forgotten. I am GLAD these experiments are REFRESHING their memories, and educating others and providing evidence for something many doctors and nurses at one time suspected was true.

[Mr. Silverback]

ProLife Ping!

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[T'wit]

What we need is an instrument that can detect evil. Then if we scanned Michael Schiavo, his lawyers and Judge George Greer, the needle would leap clear off the meter.