I didn't break my TV, LOL, it was not great but she made some effort to show both sides. Problem is she doesn't really get the REAL issues involved, she covered it as a right-to-die, everyone-needs-a-living-will story. Oh well, it was less inflammatory than I expected (keep in mind my expectations were not high from CBS News to begin with, LOL!).
She showed more of the video footage of Terri than I have previously seen on network TV. Footage of vigilers camped out, referred to as activists from "right-to-life orgs, disability activists, and supporters of conservative causes." Interviews with brother Bobby, and Felos doing his cerebral-cortex-worship schtick. Big news is they took the infamous "brain scan" Felos was waving on CNN to some doctor in New York, and although the reporter sort of glossed over it, I found his evaluation to be encouraging news: he said this was a scan of someone who "COULD" be in a PVS. I don't have time right now to transcribe the whole feature, but here's the part from the "impartial" doctor. May not be word-for-word perfect, it's a rush job...
Doctor: Looking at this scan, without the actual patient, this is consistent with someone who could be in a persistent vegetative state, yes. You would expect this person to be exceedingly low-functioning. Not necessarily in a coma or unconscious, but certainly very low-functioning.They then showed clips of Dr. Hammesfahr (sp) talking about hope for rehab. While the NY doctor's prognosis was not good, I was pleasantly surpised, I expected them to go to someone who would echo Felos' she's-already-virtually-dead stance. CBS's independent doctor says Terri is in a gray area. Perhaps the uninformed will consider that as a sign to proceed with caution.Reporter: Dr Keith Siller (sp) is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at New York University Medical School.
Doctor: This is a horrible scan.
Reporter: We showed him Terri's brain scan because he has no vested interest in the Schiavo case.
Doctor: Now this is what a normal scan should look like. In Terri Schiavo's scan over here, this person has lost the exterior brain, which is the cortex, and that's where all the functions originate from. So if you've lost cortex through atrophy, brain doesn't grow back. It's not going to recover. The problem is you have a gray zone here. That's a person who is not technically brain-dead, but in a functional sense, that person is not really brain-alive, ither.
Hope others see the feature, it wasn't too bad!