On Monday, March 28, 2005 at 08:49:31 (-0800) adrienne lauby writes:
>...
>No brain scan or MRI is used to confirm this neurological diagnosis.
>Family and friends, who spend much more time with the patient, often make
>a very different assessment, asserting that the patient has some minimal
>consciousness.
>...
What nonsense is this? As I posted on Friday, the neurologist who
examined Terri Schiavo, in detail, flatly refutes this:
Dr. Ronald Cranford, a neurologist and medical ethicist at the
University of Minnesota Medical School who has examined
Ms. Schiavo on behalf of the Florida courts and declared her to
be irredeemably brain-damaged, said [...] there was no doubt
that Ms. Schiavo was in a persistent vegetative state. "Her CAT
scan shows massive shrinkage of the brain," he said. "Her EEG is
flat - flat. There's no electrical activity coming from her
brain."
---A Diagnosis With a Dose of Religion, John Schwartz and Denise
Grady NY Times, March 24, 2005
Bill
