Interesting post, Starwise. i'll come back to it later.
btw highball, reading "enough" of the autopsy report is not enough. Come back after you read it twice AND looked up all the medical terms you didnt know
Nice.
You care to supply any evidence to support your insinuation that the entire media, including Fox News, and Terri's family, are somehow involved in a conspiracy to defraud the public? The basic facts of the autopsy are not in dispute.
Thanks .. you're right .. and it seemed quite superficial in many respects, though I'm a medical language laymen.
Consider the testimony of Dr. Hammesfahr regarding Terri's neck injury from Oct. 11, 2002:
"Anoxic and hypoxic encephalopathies are characterized by multiple small strokes. So depending upon where that stroke is, is where your deficiency is. In your average stroke, the entire side of the body is affected. But in a hypoxic or anoxic episodes, or cerebral palsy, you will see lots of different areas affected. And there may be another injury, a neck injury with her also, which compounds her examination.
Q. Compounds what, her condition?
A. Her condition, yes. There is a neck injury. There may be a spinal cord injury, also.
Q. How were you able to determine a neck injury?
A. By physical examination. On physical examination, she has several characteristics that are not typical of a stroke. First, she has very severe neck spasms. That's typical of the body's response, splinting the area to prevent injury to that area.
Q. Splinting the area?
A. Yeah. If you injure your arm, you will move it. Your muscles will contract around it to keep that area moving. Her muscles around the neck area are heavily contracted to help prevent movement around that area. Later on in the videotape, we actually show that it's almost impossible for her to bend her neck. You can pick her entire body up off the bed just by putting pressure on the back of the neck area, which is not typical in brain injury patients but in neck injury patients. In addition, her sensory examination is nothing like a typical stroke patient or typical anoxic encephalopathy.
Q. Are you experienced in treatment of patients with spinal cord injury?
A. Yes, I am.
Q. You said that you had never felt a neck like that except for one other patient, right?
A, Correct.
Q. What was the cause of injury in the other patient?
A. The person had an anoxic encephalous due to attempted strangulation.
Governor Bush has asked Bernie McCabe, Pinellas-Pasco County State Attorney to investigate why Michael Schiavo waited 40-70 minutes to call the paramedics.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/6/19/204324.shtml