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to: Robert Comer
from: John Cuccia
date: 2005-06-16 10:49:40
subject: Re: GaryB: Schiavo autopsy results

From: John Cuccia 

On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:36:07 -0400, "Robert Comer"
 wrote:

>> There was some brain functionality, because her heart and lungs were
>> working, but the autopsy confirmed that there was no chance she would
>> regain any "higher" brain function.
>
>How can they say that when they don't know how much she had to begin with...

I think medical science has at least a rudimentary map of what the various
regions of the brain do.  If those pieces that support things like
ideation,  voluntary movement, vision, speech, hearing, etc are irrevocably
damaged, then....

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