Re: [PEN-L] Schiavo, Wedge issues, Disabled Rights

[adrienne lauby]

In the interests of not milking, I'll keep this short.
I wrote my friend who works in a major university
as Assoc Professor, Cognitive and Neural Systems.
He said--
"Its the behavioral data that counts in the end.   There
easily can be something
not picked up the a neurologists instrumentation."
If you want his credentials etc, I'll ask permission
to quote him by name.
friends and family say her eyes do track.  I'd take
that assessment over any specialist.
adrienne
At 8:29 AM -0800 3/29/05, Michael Perelman wrote:
I think that we have milked this story dry.  Perhaps it was my week
with Fox news.


Bill Lear writes,
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."