I need info on the Michael Schiavo lawsuit.

[chaska]

My friend thinks he's a bastard for suing the doctors. I need more info to bring her around.

[DearAbby]

1. AbstractAppeal.com, best source for the truth

[BlueEyedSon]

2. What suit are you referring to? The malpractice (15 years ago)?

[chaska]

6. Yes, the malpractice suit.

[Az]

3. Go to Quackwatch

www.quackwatch.org
Search on the Schiavo case and you will see the case laid out before you.

[BrklynLiberal]

7. The only thing I saw there was an evaluation on that quack Dr that says he

can cure Terri Schiavi,William M. Hammesfahr, M.D.

Conclusion

The theoretical basis for Hammesfahr's vasodilation treatment for stroke clashes with current knowledge about stroke physiology. In fact, the prevailing current belief is that such treatments should worsen stroke outcome, not improve it. I believe that vasodilation treatment for stroke patients should be done only as part of an approved peer-reviewed protocol that includes informed consent about the treatment's experimental status and possible risks. Because of the potential risk, I doubt that an institutional review board would permit such a study unless animal studies can demonstrate that the treatment is safe and potentially useful.

more...

http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/Tests/tcd.html

[BrklynLiberal]

4. The facts, ma'm. Just the facts

http://abstractappeal.com/schiavo/infopage.html#qanda

Also relevant to questions about the cause of Terri's collapse is the lawsuit that Michael brought on Terri's behalf against Terri's doctors. The premise of that early 1990s lawsuit was that the doctors committed malpractice by failing to diagnose Terri's bulimia and that her bulimia led to her cardiac arrest. The case was tried to a jury, which ruled in Michael's favor, finding that Terri had bulimia, that her bulimia caused her cardiac arrest, and that the doctors were negligent in failing to diagnose the situation. The verdict was appealed, and before the appellate court could rule, the parties settled, with Michael recovering approximately $750,000 for Terri and $300,000 for himself.

After this case gained national attention in 2003, Gary Fox, the lawyer who represented Terri and Michael in that suit, wrote a stirring column concerning Terri's bulimia and how the tragic effects of that disease have been lost in the hoopla surrounding this case. The St. Pete Times still has that column online, and you can read it here.
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Column entitled "Terri's husband isn't the enemy, guardian says."

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/columnists/orl-locm ...

Here's a snip or two - columnist Mike Thomas speaking:

For answers, I turned to University of South Florida professor Jay Wolfson. He was appointed as a guardian ad litem for Terri in 2003 and prepared a report on her for Jeb Bush.

(snip)

Says Wolfson now: "Michael was adoring of her. One nursing home complained he was hostile and abusive of the staff in championing her care. She was immaculately kept. In 13 years, she never had one bedsore."

Is Michael after her insurance settlement?

Wolfson's report says that early on, Michael "formally offered to divest himself entirely of his financial interests in the guardianship estate."

Why doesn't Michael simply turn Terri over to her family?

From the report: "Testimony provided by members of the Schindler family included very personal statements about their desire and intention to ensure that Theresa remain alive . . . at any and all costs. Nearly gruesome examples were given, eliciting agreement by family members that in the event Theresa should contract diabetes and subsequent gangrene in each of her limbs, they would agree to amputate each limb and would then, were she to be diagnosed with heart disease, perform open-heart surgery. Within the testimony, as part of the hypothetical presented, Schindler family members stated that even if Theresa had told them of her intention to have artificial nutrition withdrawn, they would not do it."

Wolfson told me that when Michael heard this, he said: "That's it. I'm never going to let that happen to her."

Wolfson says the Schindlers later recanted their testimony.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...

[chaska]

5. This damn filtered library computer is making it nearly impossible ...

to communicate. I can read your responses if I jump through several hoops.

I only have 34 minutes. Does anybody have the quick and dirty?

[BrklynLiberal]

8. She was misdiagnosed when she had bulimia. If it was a mistake,

he would not have won. So how does that make him a bad guy? It go them money to pay for her care for years.
The jury originally awarded them over $6million. The judge lowered it to $2 million I believe, because he said that it was partly her fault because she worked so hard to hide what she was doing, or something to that effect.

[Bryn]

9. From What I understand

from reading Jay Wolfson's complete report, Michael and Terri were trying to have a baby so they went to a fertile doctor. Ok..to make this case clear: An actress named Tracey Gold had same eating disorder like Terri and Tracey's doctor told her that she wouldn't be able to get pregnant unless she started to eat like normal because by having fat in her body, it would release hormones to make it possible for Tracey to get pregnant which it happened and she had two children. Terri's fertile doctor failed to take a note of her problem especially since Terri was trying to get pregnant and she was very thin. She went from 250lbs to 150lbs when she met Michael and then went down to 110lbs..that's when she collapsed. Hope this helps.