Former NIH director Healy misstated facts in Schiavo case

[rodeodance]

Here we have a Dr. with national fame spouting off inaccurte informtion!!


http://mediamatters.org/items/200503300004

Former NIH director Healy misstated facts in Schiavo case

Dr. Bernadine Healy, a senior writer for U.S. News & World Report and former director of the National Institutes of Health, falsely claimed that "several" neurologists who "evaluated" Terri Schiavo determined that she had "a functional mind" and was "minimally conscious." In fact, discredited Dr. William Hammesfahr is the only neurologist who has examined Schiavo to argue that she is not in a persistent vegetative state (PVS)........


From the March 29 edition of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews (The context of her remarks indicates that Healy was equating the term "evaluation" with a physical examination.):

HEALY: everal doctors who evaluated her, neurologists, believed that she did have a functional mind and she was evaluated at a time before we fully understood that function. And I think 2002 is too long ago to have evaluated her. ... I would agree that it is possible that if she were evaluated and if in fact she was minimally conscious, which several of the neurologists felt she was, which meant she could have feelings, she was aware, but that her husband, who is her legal guardian, said, well, she doesn't want to live with the mental age of a 12-month-old, that you might turn it off.

The affidavit of Dr. William Hammesfahr linked to in this item previously was hosted by terrisfight.org, a Web site run by a foundation that opposes the removal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube. The affidavit, along with 27 others, has been removed from the site, as of the posting of this item.

[ima_sinnic]

1. you still have time to fix that strikeout

you must have put an "s" in brackets where it begins.

[rodeodance]

3. Sorry, but I am timed out. I do not know how that happened but I see

your explanation. That has never happened to me before. It was not meant to be a strickthrough.

[Hekate]

2. A Bush doctor lied? I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked...

...that untruths were broadcast by MSNBC! Because they are all, all honorable men.

Hekate