[syriacus]

The bone fractures may also be a direct result of the ossifications and the purported x-rays which show fractures, etc.,

...due to her bulimia

The courts have ruled---we starve "bulimics" in America.

Some people find your "ossification" position "untenable"

From What does Terri's bone scan mean

Certainly IN A CHILD (which Schiavo, obviously was not), the combination of posterior rib fractures, vertebral compression fractures, and distal femoral periosteal elevation is **ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY DIAGNOSTIC for child abuse** and any radiologist who missed this diagnosis would be subject to disciplinary action from his peers and state licensing board. SEE: http://radiographics.rsnajnls.org/cgi/content/full/23/4/811

It is my opinion that the most likely reason for these bone scan findings in March of 1991 is that someone either was physically abusing Terri or they dropped/mishandled her severely.

The x-rays might make all of this clearer if we can obtain them.

n.b.

Teri's fractures could be of the "insufficiency" type (caused by prolonged immobilization/dietary irregularities) and some might posit this explanation; however, in a nonambulatory bedridden patient under careful supervision, **I find this untenable, especially given their distribution which are so typical for ABUSE.**

Here's the link to the bone scan report: http://www.terrisfight.org/images/bonescan.jpg

** syriacus's emphasis

[syriacus]

Give me your tired,
your poor,
your bulimic masses
yearning to be starved by court order

[thinkingman129]

Her initial injurty was in 1990. The infamous bone scans were over one year later. How can people connect the two and say that the abuse could have been at Michael Schavio's hand?

Further, why weren't these bone scans introduced into evidence during the malpractice suit?

Why didn't a radiologist see these bone scans prior to the malpractice suit?

The bone scan report, posted on terrisfight.org, makes the report itself potentially biased and inaccurate.