Boston, MA (PRWEB) February 2, 2006 -- Not Dead Yet, the national disability rights group, is calling for an investigation into the allegedly shoddy medicine that led to a court order for the removal of life-support from Haleigh Poutre just days after her admission with a severe brain injury. She is now responsive and interactive four months after being declared "virtually brain dead" and in an "irreversible coma." If the court order had not been appealed (Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Docket #SJC-09629), Haleigh Poutre would now be dead.
Disability Advocates: Poutre Investigation Must Look Beyond DSS
Also this.....
As evidence, they point to kids like Nick Prefontaine, a Shrewsbury teen who was in a coma for two weeks after a snowboarding accident in 2003, and learned to walk and talk again at Franciscan.
Child rehab center offers hope for Haleigh
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The case of Haleigh Poutre is one of the worst to emerge from the Department of Social Services in years.
Some of us have seen this eBay offer, and North Country Gazette reports:
Posted Tuesday morning on the eBay auction site online was an offering that eBay removed within hours, allegedly not because that it was offensive and in extremely poor taste, but because eBay officials said the posting violated policy against selling used medical items and clothing. The listing appeared online only hours, being removed by noon.
eBay Yanks Purported Schiavo Items From Auction Offering
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As the whole world watched in horror in the most public execution ever, Michael Schiavo and his attorney George Felos, paid with monies that were earmarked for Terri's rehabilitation, said they were protecting her privacy and that she had indicated she wouldn't want to be kept alive.
But was it Terri's wish, or was it Michael Schiavo's wish?
Reminds me of a line from Monty Python that made me laugh: "This is the worst miscarriage of justice in England since last Thursday."
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