Posted on 03/21/2005 7:15:36 PM PST by RedBloodedAmerican
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October 22, 2003
For Immediate Release:
AAPS Doctors: Schindler-Schiavo is NOT a "death with dignity" issue
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) issued this statement from Jane M. Orient, M.D. in response to the emergency action of the Florida legislature to reinstate feeding and hydration of Terri Schindler-Schiavo:
"Terri Schindler-Schiavo has won a temporary stay from execution by a method too cruel to be used for convicted criminals. And yet her husband's attorney is trying to spin it into a "death with dignity issue" with his comments on Tuesday.
"He says it's cruel to begin rehydration. The opposite is true - dehydration is a cruel, painful death. It is unconscionable that the state would have allowed removal of her feeding tube in the first place-it's nothing less than state-sponsored euthanasia.
"She is not dependent on advanced medical interventions. Nothing is mechanically beating her heart, or forcing oxygen into her lungs. She is simply being fed through a gastrostomy tube. Would we allow a retarded child to be starved to death?
"Some physicians believe that Terri could be rehabilitated to some extent, at least so that she would be able to swallow oral feedings and eliminate the need for the tube. She should be allowed to try, but so far her husband has blocked every attempt to see if she can swallow. Doctors have offered pro bono treatment, if money is the barrier for her husband.
"Although severely disabled, some believe that she does have the capacity to communicate a desire to live. The husband has obstructed efforts at rehabilitation or independent assessments of his wife's true state.
"Where are the "compassionate end-of-life" groups such as the Robert Wood Johnson "Last Acts" initiative, and why aren't they weighing in on this?
"The ethical question for her nurses and physicians is whether they will cooperate in carrying out a death warrant.
"And the ethical question for all of us is whether we will allow the state to obstruct the efforts of people who want to provide medical care to a patient who wants to receive it.
"If we go down that path, who's to say what treatment the state will prevent you from getting."
AAPS is a non-partisan, professional association of physicians in all specialties, dedicated since 1943 to the protection of the patient-physician relationship from third-party intrusion. -30-
Excellent point.
I just spoke with an attorney yesterday whose newborn daughter has to be fed by feeding tube temporarily. She was horrified that they would pull someone's lifeline.
Simple. Powerful. And utterly beyond all possibility of intellectually honest refutation.
G-d bless you, Dr. Orient!
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| Posted by JohnHuang2 On News/Activism ^ 10/23/2003 1:52:20 AM EDT · 3 replies · 15+ views WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Thursday, October 23, 2003 | Diana Lynne A physicians' group has added its voice to the din of reaction to Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's intervention in the case of Terri Schindler-Schiavo, the brain-disabled woman whose life-sustaining feeding tube was removed last week at the request of Terri's husband and guardian, Michael Schiavo. Schiavo, who maintains his wife is in a persistent vegetative state and would want to be allowed to die with dignity, has been locked in a 13-year legal battle with Terri's parents and siblings who argue Terri is alert, wants to live and, given appropriate therapy, can be rehabilitated. Terri left no written directive. Within... |
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| Posted by nickcarraway On News/Activism ^ 10/22/2003 5:55:03 PM EDT · 71 replies · 133+ views WorldNetDaily.com ^ | October 22, 2003 | Diana Lynne Removal of feeding tube called 'state-sponsored euthanasia' ---------------------------------------- Posted: October 22, 2003 4:24 p.m. Eastern A physicians' group has added its voice to the din of reaction to Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's intervention in the case of Terri Schindler-Schiavo, the brain-disabled woman whose life-sustaining feeding tube was removed last week at the request of Terri's husband and guardian, Michael Schiavo. Schiavo, who maintains his wife is in a persistent vegetative state and would want to be allowed to die with dignity, has been locked in a 13-year legal battle with Terri's parents and siblings who argue Terri is alert, wants... |
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What do people think about organizing a hunger strike to protest the starving to death of an innocent person?
Although the article is dated, I do appreciate the information. Thank you.
This is from 2003????? Why is this not being trumpeted?
They just look at people like that as nutcases. Nothing will move them but force, IMO. Call out the guard.
ALL of these MD's must be "quacks" too. (/sarcasm) :)~
I have to concur......I"ve seen people flamed, and just today for posting articles over a week old.........
Dr. Orient is known to me from previous battles on the behalf of physicians being tormented by the government. She is honest, upright and thoroughly admirable as is this group.
They are busy, honestly, they don't even read the paper.
The level of superficial knowledge about this case is astounding. I was at lunch with four people all bashing the government for being involved. After a while someone asked my opinion and I told them that in forty years of being in medicine, I had never, not once, seen a feeding tube removed from a healthy braiin damaged woman. Only from a terminal within days of dying cancer patient.
People keep saying tubes are removed daily. They are, for people to eat normally. Dr.s don't routinely euthasize patients, I can swear to that. Even in geriatrics, they don't murder stroke victims who are in the state of health that Terri is in.
The opposition has framed the arguments with lies. And lies for years. This is sickening.
Straining at gnats, swallowing camels...
ping
why hasn't she been allowed to be wheeled outside for FIVE years?
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