Dr. Cranford was the neurologist chosen by Michael Schiavo - HE WAS NOT THE COURT APPOUNTED DOCTOR!!! Judge Greer based his ruling on what the court appointed doctor testified.
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Do you know that Cranford was part of the multidisciplinary panel that defined PVS as a distinct entity and reported on it in the New England Medical Journal in 1993? Why did Michael choose this doctor (the one with such wonderful restraint that he calls another neurologist names to the NYT).
This is a case of a hammer seeing a nail. And the hammer was carefully chosen for that propensity.