Fair or unfair? The Schiavo case

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I searched "terri schiavo broken bones" and found a lot of wacky right-wing conspiracy sites.Dr. William Walker is the radiologist who did the bone scan in March 1991. Here is a transcript of a deposition he gave in 2003. Somewhere in there he admits the alleged injuries he saw could have been caused by efforts of the paramedics to resuscitate her, and the subsequent year of physical therapy.Tell you what. She's getting an autopsy. How about we wait for the results?

In reply to: Mr. U. has an AP news feed you may be interested in hehehehe, I also heard that they are planning to change Big Ben to digital so the American tourists know what time it is.

aww, don't be so hard on yourself. I've actually met a few smart Americans, I think one of them might even post on this board

Dude, the guy who invented the Simpsons is American. Aren't the South Park guys American? It doesn't get any smarter. We just have a slightly different view of morality than you pagans.

born again Pagan, I'll have you know.

Look up Rick Mercer - "Talking to Americans". We love poking fun at our neighbours, that's what friends do! :grin:

You deserve to be upset after having lost the war. I learn history from South Park movies.

I appologise on behalf of Canada for burning down the White House.

We can thank your French neighbors for assistance during the revolution. You guys were no help. We almost wound up worshipping your queen.

so? she's nice

To the extent you're willing to trust the autopsy results, there was no sign of abouse. I'm not sure what they said about the condition of her brain; by the time results were available, the news media had become bored with the story.

But the topic isn't, my dear. Shall we start a new thread?How about if we start a new "How did you find A2A thread" every week, lest someone (God forbid) post to a stale thread on that topic?

In reply to: Um, this thread is dead, Steve no1, you've said more than you said! yes the topic died with the media coverage, as I predicted.

Till the next right to die hits the media...

In reply to:the topic died with the media coverage, as I predicted.Are you saying that we have the attention span of a dalmatian puppy? Because some folks on the relious right in the U.S. still have some ideas about nuking judges they don't like, because the judges are not pro-life enough.

In reply to: Are you saying that we have the attention span of a dalmatian puppy? I believe I was quite clear on that

I up for some good old-fashioned judge nuking! Where's the party?

In reply to:Where's the party?It's the (House) leadership of the Republican party. The party's in Congress.

Can we please make sure I'm not there first??

no. 1> Um, this thread is dead, Steve no. 2> no1, you've said more than you said! yes the topic died with the media coverage, as I predicted.a mod> He wants everyone to think he's right.No, I just want to be right. Here I go...excerpts from the NYT, 15 June 2005:In reply to:An autopsy on Terri Schiavo, the severely brain damaged woman whose death sparked an intense debate over a person's right-to-die, showed that her brain was severely "atrophied," weighed less than half of what it should have, and that no treatment could have reversed the damage.. . .The autopsy, for instance, showed that physical abuse or poison did not play a role in her collapse, he said. Ms. Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, had accused their daughter's husband, Michael Schiavo, of abusing her, which he has steadfastly denied. Dr. Thogmartin also said there was no evidence she had had an eating disorder before she collapsed, although a disorder was widely suspected because she had diminished levels of potassium in her blood.And despite a widely televised video that appeared to show Ms. Schiavo responding to voices and other movement in her room, the autopsy said that Ms. Schiavo was blind in her final days. The medical examiner said she would not have been able to eat or drink had she been fed by mouth, as her parents had requested. The autopsy found no evidence that she suffered a heart attack, or that she had been given harmful drugs that may have accelerated her death.Asked about persistent vegetative state, Dr. Stephen Milton, a neuropathology expert who joined Dr. Thogmartin at the news conference, said that term referred to a clinical diagnosis, not a pathological diagnosis. But, he said, "There was nothing in the autopsy that is inconsistent with persistent vegetative state."The lawyer for the Schindlers said at a news conference today that the parents continue to believe their daughter was not in a persistent vegetative state and thus should not have had her feeding tube removed."If Teri Schiavo had wanted to die, she had a lot of opportunities to die," said the lawyer, David Gibbs III.So Schiavo's parents and their lawyer were somewhere between misguided and totally full of crap, as were Governor and President Bush.

> Bill Frist

As a physician, he should be very embarrassed.