Posted on 05/09/2005 5:30:34 AM PDT by tbritton
Schiavo findings won't be rushed
Despite conflicting calls for thoroughness and quick results, Jon Thogmartin won't let appeals from the public force his hand.
LARGO - People around the world have talked about the life and death of Terri Schiavo, but Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner Jon Thogmartin will get the last word.
For the past month, he has been working on her autopsy. She has taken over his office and consumed his working hours. He appeared for an interview in blue scrubs, looking every bit the wiry medical examiner with his bald head and tiny wire-rimmed glasses.
"That's her and that's her," he says, pointing to piles of documents and boxes of slides stacked all over his office.
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Thogmartin, 41, knows Schiavo's autopsy will probably be the most publicized of his career. He won't talk about it until he is done and estimates it will be two or three more weeks.
He has received hundreds of letters and e-mails about the brain-damaged woman who died March 31, 13 days after her feeding tube was removed. Many ask him to look for signs she wasn't brain-dead or signs of abuse, among the allegations made during the protracted battle between her parents and her husband over whether to keep her alive.
"They are of no consequence to me," says Thogmartin of the letters.
The lively Texan, publicity shy and fiercely protective of his wife's and child's privacy, is known for doing everything by the book. He denied requests from Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, and her husband, Michael Schiavo, to allow their own pathologists to observe the autopsy.
"It is routine in cases of criminal importance to not allow any biased pathology advocates in the morgue," he said. "I'm the independent pathologist."
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I agree.
A) Cause of death is a given. Lack of hydration.
B) The confirmation of multiple broken bones goes a long ways towards confirming that she was abused.
C) Everyone knows 'PVS' was a phony diagnosis. She responded regularly to her family, friends and caregivers. No autopsy can possibly show which parts of her brain were active.
The whole world knows the cause of death: Lack of hydration.
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Wow! That's amazing! And you never even saw the body!
Have you ever considered becoming the EternalCoroner ??? ;-))
Exactly, why the would the guy say "criminal" like that? HMMM, makes me wonder.
I think we may not know what is really going on, but there may be an investigation on Terri's death that is being kept secret at this point. Would be nice to know, but if there is, than thank God!
DUH, she died of dehydration, doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. The Coroner is looking for other things as well, like if she was PVS, the broken bones, etc... But she most certainly died of deydration!
Let's see, now many people standing behind the rope had water to share and didn't?
DUH, she died of dehydration, doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out.
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DUH, looks like you can't recognize sarcasm without < sarcasm > !!! ;-))
That was sarcasm? I think anyone, not just me would have gotten that a bit confusing.
You mean on the other side of the rope from the jackbooted thugs with German Shepherds, pistols, tasers and the SWAT team?
More time to prove that her starving herself in the first place caused her coma... more like. But I am sure anything proving Michael wasn't responsible will of course mean conspiracy for you. I will accept whatever the findings are by an educated physician. Not cry conspiracy before we have any answers as so many already have.
What happened in Daniel chapter 3?
Why don't you tell us, Mr. Bible Scholar?
Clearly your faith and those who faced the jackbooted thugs with german shepherds and tasers and a SWAT team didn't. So you claim to stand on your convictions all the while cowering in the cowardice of your cliches.
So, you're saying that the vigilers should have rushed the police.
I don't think in Daniel 3 anybody rushed anybody. But what they did in the name of the Lord, they were protected. You and your hundreds of friends just stood there. For all intents and purposes, you bowed to Nebuchadnezzar because of your fear of the jackbooted, german shepherd protected, tasered equipped and back up by SWAT team thugs.
Don't bother arguing with some of these posters. It doesn't matter what you say, they will take the other side. That's all they do on FreeRepublic.
I am sure anything proving Michael wasn't responsible will of course mean conspiracy for you.
Deuteronomy 31:6 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee
I guess we'll all be judged for our actions or inaction, eh?
Proverbs 3:26 For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.
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