In Re: I finally realize why liberals want Terri Schiavo dead on
Thu, 31 Mar 2005 22:33:46 -0600, by Peter H Proctor, we read:

>On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 01:23:06 GMT, Strabo 
>wrote:
>
>>In Re: I finally realize why liberals want Terri Schiavo dead on
>>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 05:44:18 GMT, by Avenger, we read:
>
>>>Well, as a medical doctor I think I know best.
>
>Pardon me,  but I doubt seriously that you are an MD,,  being one
>myself, BTW.

Not my post.


>> Her condition is not much different than a person with cerebral palsy.
>
>Dead Wrong
>
>> A vegetative state is not the same as being "brain dead".
>
>Wrong,  assuming that "brain dead" means cortically-dead,  the usual
>medical definition.   YMMV,  naturally.
>
>>> The pain centre was "absorbed"  haha If I were
>>>to employ the tests to determine if a patient is dead every one of them
>>>would show that she is quite alive.
>
>True,  her body is/was alive.  It is just that her brain is dead.
>
>>Seen the CAT scan? The brain is gone.
>
>She also had no EEG,  also definitive for "brain dead".

That was my post.


>Dr P

Yer kind of mixing up responses.

I suppose that many believed that her animated states, the
"islands of consciousness", indicated awareness and thus
a potential for revcovery. That group argued against
"brain dead" despite the EEG readings.

After learning that she was oxygen deprived 15 years ago
combined with the flat EEG and a braincase scan that was
essentially vacuous, I concluded that she was running on the
autonomic nervous system with some subcortical nerve connections
intact.



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