I don't believe that for a minute. They've got too much invested in this whole thing to ever admit they were wrong.
No one's mind has been changed, nothing has been resolved.
That's correct, if you're talking about those who are prone to conspiracies and to wild speculation.
Well, I think my point has been proven. Nothing has changed here. You believe what you want to believe, I believe what I want to believe, and everyone else does likewise. There is no new evidence here because this official HAS NO CREDIBILITY because he is too involved with the case because of his position. The only way an autopsy would have been relevant is if an independent party had been there, and/or a representative of the Schindlers as they requested. The fact that this ME would not allow this has now left him in this difficult position of LACKING CREDIBILITY. The same as his predecessor. There needs to be an outside investigation of this entire case by an objective party, if one can be found at this point.
It took me a while, but I have now waded through the whole of the report. The Pinellas County ME left no possible stone unturned, and was assisted in his efforts my various MDs and labs. So there, in my mind at least, is no way there is a 'fix' in this at all. The ME did what the state paid him to do, examine the body of Terri Schiavo dispassionately and objectively, and present his findings. He has done so.
The problem is despite his and others best efforts, no cause for her initial collapse where discovered. The low potassium results where possibly/probably explained on pages 29 and 30 of the report (low due to treatment of the cardiac arrest suffered that night). No sign of trauma or adverse medication were found either, so we have a big fat question mark. It will hang in the air in perpetuity, interpreted in any manner the beholder wants. Insert vile four letter expletive here.
Dr Nelson, the MD who examined the brain of Terri, stated in his conclusion that he could not make a definitive diagnoses of PVS, as that is not possible on a deceased patient. But she had lost an alarming amount of brain matter, far more than could be accounted for by dehydration alone. Some areas of the brain had ceased to exist almost entirely, with scant traces of neurons found. The chances of her not being in a PVS... pretty slim, though not entirely ruled out.
The conclusion: None. We didn't know then, we don't know now. Something caused her to collapse that night, but lack of evidence leaves all manner of speculation open. Was she in a PVS? Probably. I'll even go so far to say likely, but we will never truly know. So the debate over her death will rage on, without any conclusion possible.
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