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To: Luddite Patent Counsel

That's not true and it's obvious you haven't read the court documents.

There are two regions of the brain and I've forgotten if it's the upper or lower regions which control breathing. Terri obviously is breathing on her own and it is the other region which is flat.


59 posted on 03/31/2005 3:20:05 AM PST by Peach (I'm in the WPPFF.)
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To: Peach

With all due respect, if you don't know the topic well enough to name the region of the brain that might be damaged (according to very old, inefficient tests mind you), you have no right whatever to declare her unworthy of life. You have been known on Free Republic as a pretty good researcher. I suggest you research this topic more thoroughly.


72 posted on 03/31/2005 5:56:15 AM PST by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
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To: Peach

No, I haven't read "the court documents", whatever that may refer to, but I have been involved in the design and manufacture of medical electronics, including EEG apparatus. I have also been involved in actually running EEG's on patients in the real world. If your EEG is flat, you are not in a coma, you are not "PVS" (I hate that term. It sounds like a federally-funded broadcasting organization.). If your EEG is flat, whether someone calls you a vegetable, an animal, or a mineral, you are not alive. You may be hooked up to a machine to make your chest go up and down, but you are, Madame, quite dead.


78 posted on 03/31/2005 7:06:08 AM PST by Luddite Patent Counsel ("Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others." - Groucho Marx)
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