Sue Hartigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi Terry:
You said:
Mary has a thing about hematomas. She was in absolute agreement with
me.
The evidence of weeks' old healing of the skull fracture in Matthew
Eappen
was indisputable though denied by the prosecutors to this day. The fact
of
fractures in both the skull and wrist of Matthew Eappen should have
raised
the suspicion of those who wanted to know the truth, especially in a
developmentally delayed infant. The scurrilous claim that that only
meant
that the au pair must have caused them falls flat on its face.
The best experts available found there was a significant possibility
that
the death of Matthew Eappen resulted from an earlier injury. That a
subdural hematoma had not been previously known to have caused death
after
weeks in an infant though it has after a number of days has been well
publicized as well as the fact that elderly patients have died from such
effects after over a year. This hardly precludes it from having
happened
this time or many other times. Medicine is, of necessity, an
observational
science.
I said:
I don't understand what you are saying here. A person can die within
hours, minutes for that matter from a subdural. Just as they can linger
on for days. It depends on the bleed, /w the resultant pressure on the
brain.
I too wondered about the wrist fx.
> Now Mary was only a nurse and we all know nurses know nothing. :-} But she
> did save a life over one of these damn things. Because she didn't listen to
> higher authority.
I do take exception with "nurses know nothing". <BG>
> Best, Terry
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