Two doctors blast NYT after its anti-Jeb editorial re Terri S.

The NYT - Letters to the Editor ^ | June 21, 2005 | Dr. Carl d'Angeio and Dr. Michael Egnor

[summer]

FYI.

I guess not everyone who reads the NYT agrees with its anti-Jeb editorials...

[summer]

FYI.

[FormerACLUmember]

Two good doctors. I especially liked the devastating comments by the neurosurgeon on Terri's murder.

[Enterprise]

Those are both great letters, and I love the logic of the second letter.

[Guenevere]

Bless those doctors.

[Ladysmith]

God bless them both. They are both spot on.

[summer]

Yes, I agree.

I have to say I find it odd how quick and eager some people are to say Gov Bush is engaged in political posturing on this, because, does anyone really know for certain what happened to her in the first place? No one knows. If any kind of investigation can shed more light on the events that resulted in her condition, we would all be enlightened, not only about Terri S, but about how to prevent the same fate from happening to each of us.

[Just mythoughts]

FYI!

[k2blader]

Bump. Thanks for posting. It's good to hear from these doctors.

[summer]

FYI.

[aculeus]

Good for the docs.

[GadareneDemoniac]

Any minute now the happy death crowd will be in here telling us that these aren't real doctors, don't know what they're talking about, blah, blah, blah....

[NutCrackerBoy]

The lapses in logic aside, it's chilling to assert that it's more ethical to starve a handicapped person if that person is blind. This is what passes for ethics among advocates for euthanasia.

-Michael Egnor, M.D. Stony Brook, N.Y., June 18, 2005 The writer is vice chairman of the department of neurological surgery, SUNY, Stony Brook.

Hurray for Dr. Egnor! But why didn't we hear more earlier against euthanasia from very respected physicians?

[EDINVA]

wonder if Dr. Egnor will keep his position as head of neurology at Stony Brook for very long? This is not a politically correct position for him to have taken.

[summer]

But why didn't we hear more earlier against euthanasia from very respected physicians?

Good question, but I think perhaps all the media hype about politics made some medical people keep their distance. Now, in retrospect, maybe more will speak out.

[Saundra Duffy]

it's chilling to assert that it's more ethical to starve a handicapped person if that person is blind

I saw a headline that read, "Florida woman blind, without hope" as if her blindness made her even more without hope. The kill-Terri-first crowd doesn't even make sense. LOL! Thank you for posting these two letters from MD's. Made my day.

[summer]

Re your post #14 - I was wondering the same.

[summer]

You're welcome.

[.38sw]

Just curious - do you have a specific reason for cutting me out of the large herd here and pinging me to this thread?

[summer]

Yes, your screenname was on the other thread about the doctor said was a quack. And, so were the other two screennames I pinged with you. I would have pinged everyone, but, your names were the easiest to pick up and ping in the time I have at this moment! Sorry it was not something more than the easy spelling of your screenname. :)