A Poll on removal of Schiavo's feeding tube by Medscape

[Ilsa]

Medscape by Web MD has a poll out this morning in which registered users may participate. It is not scientific. There is also a breakdown between doctors and nurses, but results were not significantly different between the two professions. Medscape provides educational articles for professionals in medicine.


Poll Results View results by: All Professions

On March 21, Congress passed and President Bush signed legislation that transferred jurisdiction in the Terri Schiavo case away from the state of Florida, which in the past has found in favor of the plea by the brain-damaged woman's husband to remove her feeding tube. Do you favor or oppose removing the feeding tube in this case?

Favor 71% (4879)
Oppose 28% (1941)

Total Responses: 6820
Poll conducted 22-Mar-2005 - 05-Apr-2005

[ima_sinnic]

1. dumb doctors and nurses! what do they know, anyway?

:sarcasm:
:eyes:

[rodeodance]

2. approx the same % as us 'regular' folk

[etherealtruth]

3. All they have going for them is ...

education, experience and facts... What about the important stuff like frenzied emotion and political ambition?