Do we really want to go there again? All I know is that my recent adventures in beta-medicine have taught me that medicine is like anything else. There is a conventional wisdom, which, once you dig, is usually not exactly true. So I am wary of things that everyone agrees are true. To take an example that does not relate to my own health -- which I would rather not hash out onlist -- conventional medical wisdom says that prunebelly syndrome is a hopeless condition and if your baby has it you may as well abort. Yet I have talked to many many healthy adults with the syndrome as part of the pro bono work I did for that group.
Dana On 5/4/05, Ray Champagne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did anyone see the story about the brain damaged fireman who woke up > after 9 years? > > Maybe they shouldn't have let Terry go? > > http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-brain04.html > > Channeling Linda Richman of SNL fame: > > "Sometimes a PVS is not really persistent. Discuss" > > THE STORY: > > ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- Nearly 91/2 years after a firefighter was left > brain-damaged and mostly mute during a 1995 roof collapse, he did > something that shocked his doctors: He asked for his wife. > > Staffers at the nursing home where Donald Herbert has lived for more > than seven years raced to get Linda Herbert on the telephone. > > It was the first of many conversations the patient had with his wife and > four sons Saturday during a 14-hour stretch, Herbert's uncle Simon Manka > said. > > ''How long have I been away?'' Herbert asked. ''We told him almost 10 > years,'' the uncle said. ''He thought it was only three months.'' > > ''He stayed up 'til early morning talking with his boys and catching up > on what they've been doing over the last several years,'' firefighter > Anthony Liberatore said. > > Dr. Rose Lynn Sherr of New York University said such a recovery is > "almost unheard of after 10 years.'' AP > > -- > ================================================================= > Ray Champagne - Senior Application Developer > CrystalVision Web Site Design and Internet Services > 603.433.9559 > www.crystalvision.org > ================================================================= > > The information contained in this transmission (including any > attached files) is CONFIDENTIAL and is intended only for the > person(s) named above. If you received this transmission in > error, please delete it from your system and notify us > immediately. If you are not an intended recipient, please note > that any use or dissemination of the information contained in this > transmission (including any attached files) and the copying, > printing, or retransmission of that information is strictly > prohibited. You can notify us by return email or by phone at > 603.433.9559. > > Thank you. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:156378 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
