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To: First_Salute
This is about what I expected from Michael Schiavo in regard to Terri's "care". This home is corrupt. Just follow the money. Some folks really need their jobs and will be quiet and do what they can privately as this one claims. Who knows maybe those that murdered the most in patients got a bonus check or a percetnage of the money they were after.
20 posted on 10/23/2003 6:36:34 PM PDT by nmh
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To: nmh
Bump.
22 posted on 10/23/2003 6:37:47 PM PDT by First_Salute (God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
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To: nmh
While I'm sceptical as well, as a medical professional, I have seen and heard of this kind of things happening. When it does happen, and is proven, a bunch of people are involved.

First, a patient's chart is a legal and medical document, and it is sacred. If the procedures and notes in that chart are altered then the institution, physicans, and nurses are a party to felony fraud, and malpractice. In short, they are all ruined....PERIOD. So, if this happened somebody is in deep S#iT.

Secondly, if the husband was able to shake this kind of fist over the medical professionals in this outfit, then something is terribly wrong. You don't call the treatment, and care of a patient if you are not a medical professional. It's illegal, and it's immoral. The laws of the Florida Medical Board would not permit this. If it didn't know, then the liability is on the institution, and a criminal charges could be slamed on the institution, the Doctors/Nurses and the administration of the institution, as well as the husband himself.

Most importantly, if this woman is truly alive and not wishing to die then she must live. I took an oath not to help death, but to work for life.....First, I will do no harm! Being a party to a woman's death that was alive, I would be doing harm....I would be commiting murder. That is not only out of the oath of ethics, it is criminal.

In a situation where a patient is comatose, and brain dead (many tests to prove this, and many decisions made) I will advise that life supports be terminated, but it must be clear to me that the patient is 'brain dead'. Then and only then can I justify stopping live support. Believe me, I've had to do it before, I've had to do it to my own mother.

From what I have read on this case the patient shows all signs of brain activity and, while in a 'bed ridden' state, and even a diminished capacity state, is far from a comatose, vegitated, and brain dead state. The state should appoint an intrum guardian and start an investigation in this patient's case. This husband sounds a little anxious to have his wife die. If that happened to a patient of mine, I would have the husband banned from visitation and inform the police. Too many questions unanswered here, too much emotion, not enough medical science, not enough thinking. Time to calm down and investigate....logically!

69 posted on 10/23/2003 7:42:14 PM PDT by timydnuc (qFR)
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