Terri Schiavo was diagnosed by multiple physicians, including independent court-appointed physicians, as being in a persistent vegetative state.
Martin Pistorious was not.
EXACTLY.
***Terri Schiavo was diagnosed by multiple physicians, including independent court-appointed physicians, as being in a persistent vegetative state.***
The independent court appointed physician was not independent. It’s been a while since I’ve studied the case, but there was a relationship between that doctor and either the judge or Michael’s lawyer. I think it was Michael’s lawyer who recommended him. As well, he was one who was used in cases where they wanted to conclude that patients were PVS.
Terri was also diagnosed by several other doctors that she was no longer in a PVS, that there was a new diagnosis that fit her, that she had progressed to a Minimally Conscious state. There was a new technology that had been developed only recently to the national awareness of her case. The judge refused to allow the testimony of these doctors to be entered into evidence.
The thing that doomed Terri’s fate was an error in the very beginning, when her family had hired an inexperienced lawyer. This was back in the late 90s if I recall correctly. It was conceded as “fact” by that lawyer, that Terri was in a PVS. Because her family didn’t contest that in the beginning, Terri was doomed by the system. They worked hard to overturn that, but it was a technical lawyerly error.
So, a JUDGE gets to decide a person's medical diagnosis?
What about the dozens of medical professionals who signed affidavits that she WAS NOT?
Dr. Jay Carpenter
Dr. Fred Webber
Dr. Jacob Green
Dr. Alexander T. Gimon
Dr. Richard Neubauer
Dr. William Scott Russell
Dr. Joseph L. Brunner
Dr. David L. Coulter
Dr. David Hopper
Dr. Beatrice Engstrand
Dr. Alyse Eytan
Dr. Harry Sawyer Goldsmith
Dr. William M. Hammesfahr
Dr. Paul Harch
Dr. Carolyn Heron
Dr. Lawrence Huntoon
Pamela Hyink , SLP
Dr. Jill Joyce
Dr. James P. Kelly
Dr. Philip R. Kennedy
Dr. Kyle Lakas
Dr. Peter J. Luca
Dr. William Maxfield
Dr. Peter J. Morin
Myra Stinson, CCC-SLP
Dr. James Avery
Dr. Ricardo Senno
Dr. J. Michael Uszler
Dr. Richard Weidman
Dr. Jon David Young
Dr. Thomas Mark Zabiega
Dr. Ralph Ankenman
Carla Sauer Iyer, RN
C. Johnson, CNA
Heidi Law, CNA
Sara Green-Mele. MS. CCC,SLP
Dr. Laurie Barclay
Dr. Rodney Dunaway
Dr. George Isajiw
Dr. Leonard P. Rybak
Dr. William Cheshire
What about the people who actually LOVED Terri and knew that she was aware of things?
I realize that you are VERY NEW to FR (if this is actually your first time here), but you should know that this is a pro-life forum.
I known many liberals who wander through life in an insistent vegetative state.
Should they be starved?
Or just zotted?