Excuse me, Mr. Schiavo, I just have one more question...
Posted on 03/27/2005 6:31:02 AM PST by gesully
They tried. Michael got the malpractice award Nov 92. He stopped all therapy & put a DNR on her chart 3 months later - Feb 93. In Aug 93 he tried to stop treatment for a life-threatening infection, and in Sep 93 the Schindlers petitioned the court to have him removed as guardian. The sut was dismissed in Feb 94.
They tried again with Greer and were again denied.
There's lots of that to go around.
Michael Schiavo's star witness was a neurologist named Ronald Cranford. He testified that Terri was indeed in a PVS and Greer accepted his testimony as convincing. Problem is, he's a well-known euthanasia who is a professional witness in cases like this, always testifying that patients are in a PVS.
One of his patients, Robert Wendland, could operate his own wheelchair and pick up colored blocks correctly, but that didn't stop Cranford from testifying to his PVS state. Fortunately the CA Supreme Court didn't buy it.
He's had patients recover from PVS after he's diagnosed them with it. And he openly admits that he doesn't feel anyone should have a feeding tube, says that a spoon is often artificial life support, and doesn't believe advanced alzheimers patients or PVS patients have constitutional rights.
Should he have been trusted as a credible witness in this case?
Hospice of the Florida Suncoast is currently under federal investigation for just that.
From the article -
According to records The Empire Journal has obtained from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the federal agency has initiated collection procedures against the Hospice of Florida Suncoast to recover some $14.8 million which they say was unlawfully paid to the hospice as a result of fraudulent claims made for Medicare reimbursement for patients that were not terminally ill and therefore not eligible for hospice care. According to the 2004 annual report of HHS filed Dec.31, 2004, the agency has initiated collection procedures against the hospice.
The federal agency has been trying to recover the Medicare overpayments made to the hospice since May, 1997 at the time when Felos was chairman of the board.
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services conducted an audit of the Hospice of Florida Suncoast Inc. during 1995. The objective of the review was to evaluate hospice eligibility determinations for beneficiaries that remained in hospice care more than 120 days. OIG also determined the amount of payments made to the hospice for those Medicare beneficiaries that did not meet the Medicare reimbursement requirements.
Cremation chosen by Michael Schaivo.......hmmmmmmmmmm
Then we agree. :)
Felos? And the plot thickens.
Didn't you know he was chairman of the hospice board? He resigned after taking Michael Schiavo's case (though apparently, not immediately), and is the reason Terri ended up in that hospice in the first place.
He also was instrumental in lobbying FL legislators to revise the "end of life" statutes in 1999 to include feeding tubes as life support and PVS as reason to remove them, thereby allowing Michael Schiavo's petition legal standing.
There are so many intersecting relationships to unravel and dots to connect that the mind just boggles.
We have the live in's name-maybe someone could appeal to her senses as a mother?
We have the live in's name-maybe someone could appeal to her senses as a mother?
And still he gets away with killing her? I would think Gov Bush could have used that against Felos to save Terri in some way.
We have the live in's name-maybe someone could appeal to her senses as a mother?
Punk Greer is a probate judge. Can you believe a punk probate judge decided Terri Schiavo must die? A punk probate judge gave her a death sentence
Thank you for your input. About Terri supposedly having low potassium, did she exercise a lot?
Most peculiar rulings this judge Greer seems to have. Thanks for input. This case gets more curiouser by the minute.
Don't blame Jeb Bush. Take a look in the mirror. If folks like you had accepted the responsibility for saving Terri, millions would have marched on Washington and Florida demanded that she be saved, and she would have been saved. But all you idiots do is bad mouth the Governor, while you sit snug bitching in your cozy corner. Get a life, my friend, and either do something yourself, or just shut your mouth. I am just sick and tired of Freepers on this site that moan and groan about others and do absolutely nothing themselves. The death of the innocent Ms. Schiavo rests clearly not on your babbling mouth, but on your do-nothing hands!
Dont know but she drank 13 or so glasses of ice tea a day. If she took a diuretic her potassium wouldl be low. And if she were vomiting alot or a bulemic.
I don't know about that night.
No. There's much more here than meets the eye.
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