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To: frogjerk
"...I'd love to hear the explanation of a broken right femur bone..."

Something seems fishy with this. I'm all for Terri and her care and her parents but this X-ray biz does not seem Kosher.

A busted femur is not the sort of thing that goes unnoticed or untreated is it? It is not something that could just have been limped through. What is the time frame for these injuries? Sometime earlier than her brain damage but how much earlier? What did her parents have to say about the signs of abuse before the brain damage?

I'm not saying this X-ray story is bogus but it does raise lots of questions that the article did not answer.
10 posted on 02/11/2005 6:51:06 AM PST by Monterrosa-24 (Technology advances but human nature is dependably stagnant)
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To: Monterrosa-24
" A busted femur is not the sort of thing that goes unnoticed or untreated is it?"

It is if the guardian refuses to permit treatment on the basis of a lie about the patient "wanting to die."

22 posted on 02/11/2005 7:39:35 AM PST by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
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To: Monterrosa-24

Well it isn't bogus because you can see the actual report if you go to the link.

There is also the interview Greta did with Dr. Baden (who also said there should be an investigation).

“On the Record” with Greta van Susteren

Interview with Dr. Michael Baden, a Forensic Pathologist from NY

10-24-03

Greta: Dr. Baden, a potassium imbalance, let’s first talk about if you have a potassium deficiency, can that cause the condition that Terri Schiavo has?

Baden: Um, can, but unlikely. Potassium is very interesting. It’s probably the most lethal poison we have when it’s injected rapidly, and that’s why it’s the poison that kills people, capital punishment by lethal injection. And it stops the heart from beating properly — too much of it. But also too little of it., hypo-potassium, can also cause the heart to stop beating properly and lead to lack of blood flow to the brain and death of brain cells by lack of oxygen. But that’s very unusual, Greta, extremely unusual.

Greta: A normal healthy woman, I assume, would have no reason, for instance, to take potassium supplements unless, perhaps, she’s on a diuretic or some other medication that would cause a potassium depletion. Is that right?

Baden: That’s correct. That’s right.

Greta: Is there any explanation then in your mind, and I realize you were not her team physician, but why would a woman at her age have a potassium imbalance?

Baden: Extremely unusual unless she had certain kinds of diseases, which she doesn’t have. She was in her twenties. The reason that she’s in the state she’s in is because there was a period of time, maybe 5 minutes or 8 minutes, when not enough oxygen was going to her brain. That can happen because the heart stops for 5 or 8 minutes, but she had a healthy heart, from what we can see. The other thing, though. . . I’m sorry Greta?

Greta: No, go ahead.

Baden: Yeah, your staff has provided me with a bone scan that you guys obtained ah from her initial admission in 1991 to the hospital. And that bone scan describes her as having a head injury. That’s why she’s there, that’s why she’s getting a bone scan. And a head injury can cause, lead to the vegetative state that Ms. Schiavo is in now, and it does show evidence that there are other injuries, other bone fractures, that on healing-stage, so that....

Greta: So, let me back up a second. Head injury. Could she have had, could she have passed out from a potassium imbalance causing a falling head injury? Is that what you’re talking about, or are you suggesting some pre-existing head injury to her passing out?

Baden: Something totally different. That it’s extremely rare for a 20-year-old to have a cardiac arrest from low potassium who has no other diseases. So the other issue is could it have been due to some other cause, which is raised by the family, has to be looked at.

Greta: Alright, other injuries and bone injuries, what does that suggest to you?

Baden: Some kind of trauma. The trauma can be from an auto accident, the trauma can be from a fall, or the trauma can be from some kind of beating that she obtained from somebody somewhere. It’s something that should have been investigated in 1991 when these findings were found, and….

Greta: They were fresh.

Baden: Maybe there were, Maybe they were investigated by police at that time.

Greta: Alright. Dr. Michael Baden, thank you.

Baden: Thank you, Greta.


35 posted on 02/11/2005 9:32:51 AM PST by tutstar ( <{{--->< http://ripe4change.4-all.org Violations of Florida Statutes ongoing!)
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To: Monterrosa-24

What about a hairline fracture on your femur? Couldn't you limp through that?

Why would she admit to her family that her huysband beats her? There are many wives, unfortunatly, who hide abuse.


89 posted on 03/04/2005 9:35:21 AM PST by It's me
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