All four of these physicians agree, yet other physicians and health care professionals have expressed less certainty - even contradicted the “experts”.
"Pictures do lie," said Dr. Lawrence Schneiderman, a physician and bioethicist at the University of California, San Diego
Michael Schiavo has allowed no pictures to be taken for 4 years. So which pictures are lying, and to whom? And how is it that all the information provided by the attending nurses has been left out of your post?
Dr. Timothy Quill of the Center for Palliative Care and Clinical Ethics at the University of Rochester in New York, said reporting about the case had confused people.
So what? The issue of her PVS is still very much up in the air.
Whether or not Terry Schiavo is actually in a persistent vegetative state has by no means been decided.
"Anybody who been around patients in a persistent vegetative state knows that it is an unnerving phenomenon because they are alternate between sleep and wakefulness but that have no ability to interact," Quill said in a telephone interview.
Oh, really? Anyone??? All the reports I’m reading indicate considerable responses.
"To the families and loved ones, and to inexperienced health care professionals, PVS (permanent vegetative state) patients often look fairly 'normal,"' Cranford said in a statement.
How utterly patronizing and patrician.
Long story short, here, a one-sided series of “expert” quotes does not do anything to enlighten the issue.
I can’t help but suspect that people who are so willing to ignore even the possibility that Terry’s parents see their daughter and not some vegetable indicates a sad lack of knowledge about UNCONDITIONAL LOVE - and God’s mercy and grace. May he have such on those of you so willing to deprive her of her life.
Can you accept that there is distortion on both sides?