Isn't that what the bone scan showed?
It showed injuries as severe as a bad auto wreck -- except Terri wasn't in one. The injuries were NOT consistent with being bedridden for a year (Dr. Walker's second answer below).
11/21/2003. Legal examination of Dr. William Campbell Walker, the radiologist who handled Terri's bone scan. The questioner is attorney Patricia Fields Anderson.
Q I realize you can't assign a cause to
20 these injuries that you picked up in this report.
21 But typically in your experience, what would be the
22 causes of this pattern of abnormality?
23 A In somebody her age, an auto accident is
24 by far the most typical cause.
25 Q Assume that she was not in an auto
1 accident but that she had suffered an anoxic or
2 hypoxic encephalopathy type of injury from a cardiac
3 arrest and had been bedridden for a year at this
4 point. What might account for these abnormalities?
5 A In my knowledge, that type of injury
6 would not account for this pattern of abnormalities.