The Schindlers told Michael it was time to move on with his life. They admitted this in court documents when they also admitted they knew Terri was PVS.
I think it's a ridiculous law.
The nurse didn't think so. I'm certainly not suggesting that doctors would ever be lying maniplators.
I know that. But I'll bet the Schindlers didn't expect him to cease therapy, put a DNR on her chart and eventually try to stop feeding her while he was "moving on with his life."
Their admission doesn't mean much in the medical community, for doctors are wrong every day and often change opinion. People defy diagnoses all the time. And specifically, PVS is a highly contraversial and often subjective diagnosis - a diagnosis that is wrong 40% of the time as many people come out of so-called PVS. Even the expert witness for Michael, Dr Ronald Cranford, has testified of patients being in PVS, who actually came out of such a state later on. He even claimed one patient was in PVS despite that the man could operate a wheelchair and put colored blocks in a desired pattern. So despite what the Schindlers may have believed so many years ago, they can't be bound by it. Can you imagine if we required doctors to never be wrong? Who would dare practice medicine?
And who cares if she is in PVS or not anyway? Does that make her any less of a person? Apparently some believe that is the case - that same Dr Cranford on Hannity & Colmes last night admitted that he doesn't believe people like Terri have constitutional rights, nor do advanced alzheimers patients. What a slippery slope all this is. The bottom line for all of us should be that no one should ever be starved to death, period.
I think it's a ridiculous law.
You honestly see no conflict of interest in guardianship situations like this? That is astounding to me.