Posted on 08/10/2005 10:38:54 AM PDT by marshmallow
CLEARWATER - Michael Schiavo has asked a court to waive the two-year statute of limitations on filing a medical malpractice lawsuit against one or more of his deceased wife's caregivers.
Terri Schiavo, 41, died March 31 after her feeding tube was removed after a seven-year court battle.
Schiavo's attorney in this case, Mark Perenich, said he was not able to discuss the proposed lawsuit behind Tuesday's request for an extension of the two-year statute of limitations.
By law, medical malpractice lawsuits must be filed within two years of the alleged misconduct unless an extension is granted.
In October 2003, Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was removed on court order. Doctors reinserted it on orders from Gov. Jeb Bush.
Just to clarify something in your last sentence, Michael did not become a nurse until after she fell ill.
Do you?
Then I believe we have more things in common than not! :)
I asked the question first, silly.
Yes, you asked the silly question first.
Well, you are relating weight loss to death, therefore to Terri's death....so you must have the answer to the question I asked....as you wouldn't accept the fact that low potassium levels, in an of themselves, can be fatal, without regard to weight loss. You really are very silly, aren't you?
WE ARE TALKING ABOUT ONE SPECIFIC CASE HERE. Why is that so hard to understand. And it's really silly to keep using the word silly when having a discussion, don't you think?
The coroner's report said she was not bulemic.
It's not difficult at all for me to understand that the M.E. ruled out bulimia; it is for you, however.
I want to know how 15 years after the fact it could be determined whether or not someone was bulemic. Is there an expert here who can explain this? Bulimia is a mental illness. The physical part was the low potassium. I'm very serious and extremely curious about the answer to this question.
Please read my post above asking how bulimia can be spotted 15 years after the fact. And one more thing... please treat me with as much respect as I'm treating you. Thank you.
Chief Medical Examiner Jon Thogmartin told reporters in a televised press conference the 40-year-old woman who died March 31—13 days after her feeding tube had been removed by court order—showed no signs of strangulation or trauma. Nor did Schiavo likely suffer from an eating disorder, he said.“Her heart functioned fine for 25 years … and on that day something happened that her heart didn’t beat,” Thogmartin said. “If that’s not a testament to the strength of her heart, nothing is. Whatever stopped her heart that day was not in the heart, (but an) extrinsic force outside the heart causing the heart not to beat.”
Contradictory to widely circulated media reports that Schiavo suffered a severe brain injury after a heart attack brought on by an eating disorder, both Thogmartin and forensic pathologist Stephen Nelson said they found no evidence that was the case. What they agreed on was that she had suffered a severe brain injury after her heart stopped beating.
And it also says there was no trauma was found; I find that hard to believe, as the admission reports to the E.R. on the night of her collapse showed that she had a rigid neck. Dr. Baden previously discussed this, early on, that that neck rigidity could have been caused by strangulation.
And Dr. Hammesfahr, and numerous other doctors, did not agree with the "liquified" brain version of MS's doctors. If there was, in fact, a liquified brain, then there should have been no disagreements amongst the doctors. When someone has a broken arm, how many doctors would likely said it's a figament of your imagination?
So some of the things the ME said are facts, but the stuff you don't agree with isn't? I'm confused.
And there were numerous broken bones, including her thigh bone. MS wants to explain this away as being caused by osteoporosis.
I sent the bone scan results to a friend of mine, several years ago, who's an orthopedic surgeon. I asked him his opinion as to the bone scan (which, btw, clearly states "history of trauma"), whether, in his opinion these various breaks/fractures (thigh, ankles, knees, back, ribs) were all caused by osteoporosis over trauma. He said, in his opinion, that ALL these breaks/fractures, could not possibly have been caused by osteoporosis. And he agreed with the Dr.'s report that there were, indeed, caused by trauma.
Oh, so you think that when one lies, they lie about everything? IF the M.E. said there was trauma involved, then there would have to be, I would believe, a police investigation.
Do you honestly think that he was not pressured into making sure that whatever was put on his report, he was told to make certain that whatever he says, make sure the report is not an impetus for an investigation into the extremely suspicious circumstances surrounding the night of her collapse?
I have questions about the coroner's report as well. My guess is there are certain permanent effects on the body as a result of bulemia and there was no evidence of those effects.
It's probably about as confusing as "Able Danger" is to the 9-11 Commission. Or what "is" is.
Oftentimes, especially in high profile matters, only things on the agenda are printed or attended to....unforutnately, if that means the actually truth is not part of the agenda, it gets buried. Part of the agenda here appears to be saving some people's jobs/necks. Which begs the question: why? You realize, of course, for the people behind this matter, it really is NOT about Terri...it's about something more sinister at stake.
I think we should pull together and file a class action suit against this *(@*&(& for all our pain and suffering of having to witness what he's done.
I'm afraid we'd get nowhere on that one.
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