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To: Hildy; Petronski
WHY ON EARTH WOULD I CARE what someone, who I don't have much respect for in the first place, says about me. They don't know me.

Apparently, Petronski doesn't care. And he proved that by calling your bluff when you threatened him with issuing a personal insult. Whether he cares or not what you think of him has little to do with your bad behavior.

Meanwhile, you are artfully dodging the issue of Schiavo's medical malpractice suit. It appears to me that you know that if he is suing Terri's caregivers more than two years hence, it lends greater credence to the image of him as a money-grubber. He said he would use the money from the first suit (based on the failure to diagnose bulimia, which we know now there are serious questions about) to care for Terri, and ended up spending most of it trying to put her to death. What's he going to claim more money's for now? He's already buried Terri, so it can't be for that!

Maybe the advance for his book isn't what he thinks it should be.

500 posted on 08/15/2005 1:31:00 AM PDT by L.N. Smithee (http://lnsmitheeblog.blogspot.com)
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To: L.N. Smithee
>> based on the failure to diagnose bulimia, which we know now there are serious questions about

More than "serious" questions. It was almost impossibly rare in the first place. Very few healthy young people go into cardiac arrest from vomiting, and none at all that I can find without vomiting as in Terri's case.

The Medical Examiner, in polite professional language, scoffed at the bulimia theory. It is easy to explain Terri's single low-potassium blood test from other causes.

The autopsy actually ruled out bulimia in a different, stronger way simply by confirming that the anoxia/hypoxia damage was limited to the brain, and mostly in the front of the brain. The heart, liver and lower body were unaffected, but they would have been equally damaged by lack of oxygen if the cardiac arrest had been caused by low potassium. That would have been a "global" effect, not just the brain.

The nature of the brain-only damage suggests that the injury occurred to the neck or head. The carotid arteries supply oxygen to the front of the brain, where the damage was the greatest, so we may make pressure to the carotid arteries the #1 suspected cause of Terri's collapse.

Nice try, Mike, but it wasn't iced tea.

513 posted on 08/15/2005 5:49:16 AM PDT by T'wit (Bioethicists have the same M.O. as Ted Bundy, except they have graduate degrees and less charm.)
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