This story will never go away, not as long as there is breath in my body. This was MURDER of an innocent woman, plain and simple. In the name of what, I don't know, we ripped this woman from the bosom of her loving and devoted family to be uh ........what was it again "merciful".
Look I still haven't gotten over this and I hope I never do. Please tell me that you are not so inured that you "wish it would just go away". This woman could not have died for nothing! Laws must be changed. I t will be your turn one day.
Schiavo's 'Dr. Humane Death' Got 1980 Diagnosis Wrong
A neurologist
hired by Michael Schiavo to confirm that his wife Terri was in a persistent
vegetative state said he was "105 percent sure" of that diagnosis, but Dr.
Ronald Cranford expressed similar certainty about a patient he examined in 1980
who later regained both consciousness and the ability to communicate.
Three days before Terri Schiavo's death, Cranford appeared on the MSNBC talk program, "Scarborough Country," to discuss her condition. Cranford was interviewed by reporter Lisa Daniels.
CRANFORD: I am 105 percent sure she is in a vegetative state. And the autopsy will show severe irreversible brain damage to the higher centers, yes.
DANIELS: Why are you so sure, doctor?
CRANFORD: Because I examined her ...
Cranford - who is assistant chief in neurology at the Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minn., professor of neurology at the University of Minnesota Medical School and a faculty associate at the university's Center for Bioethics - went on to call another neurologist who disagreed with his diagnosis "a charlatan" and accused Daniels of being "stupid."
Host and former U.S. Rep. Joe Scarborough interrupted to defend Daniels, touching off a clash with Cranford, which included the doctor admonishing Scarborough with: "You've got to get your facts straight."
Cranford also certain, but wrong about 1980 diagnosis
Cranford expressed similar certainty about another patient he declared to be in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) in 1980, former Minneapolis Police Sgt. David Mack.
''Sergeant Mack will never regain cognitive, sapient functioning,'' Cranford said six months after Mack was shot while serving a search warrant on Dec. 13, 1979. ''He will never be aware of his condition nor resume any degree of meaningful voluntary conscious interaction with his family or friends.''
Based on Cranford's unequivocal diagnosis of Mack, the officer's relatives removed him from a respirator in August 1980 "because his family felt he should be allowed to die rather than exist in such a state," according to published reports.
But Mack did not die.
so tell me again why this doctor was allowed to make such a critical call again
