Posted on 06/16/2005 9:36:04 AM PDT by ambrose
You went to Internet U. and you think you can compare that to the years of hands on training and education that MDs have to endure just to graduate medical school. Web MD is just layman's medicine, written about eighth grade level. Believe me, and you can ask anyone in the medical or nursing professions, the more you learn, the less you feel you really KNOW.
Strangely enough, a lot of the same information you and your cohorts are discounting came from that site. The homepage of the Terri Schiavo Foundation.
I have only visited Terri's site once.
My cohorts are mostly other nurses, who went into nursing like me to take care of and treat patients in order to assist them to live at their highest level of function possible. This is highly individualized, but I do not remember anyone guaranteeing that this life would be all sweetness and light. We just tried to make it that way for our patients.
Unfortunately, or maybe not, according to your view we have mostly left the field. I do not regret it, because of the negative trends that are taking place.
I visited it daily, even signed the guestbook. Still visit to this very day.
"To take one well studied example for instance, ablation of the hippocampus and associated structures will result in the patient having virtually nil chance of laying down any new declarative memories."
Do you think it is possible we will someday have the ability to fix a brain like this?
That's a good question. I don't see why one day we couldn't develop technology to replace or regenrate bits of the brain that have damaged. However, if the part of the brain that was damged contained information that was specific to the individual, such as memories, then it's not obvious to me how you'd be able to regenerate that specific information.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.