So, you trust Michael Schiavo?
I have more of a problem with doctors, like Cranford, who travel the country misdiagnosing patients as PVS and think that those patients have no constitutional rights.
It's an interesting combination of the "the old one-two" with "the old heave-ho." Sort of a hybrid approach, you might say.
1) Diagnose undesirables as PVS with no constitutional rights, then
2) Push them off the planet.
I never heard that the doctor claimed to be a Nobel nominee, just that someone else said it about him, maybe confused because the doctor's congressman had submitted the doctor's name to the Nobel committee (which doesn't make hima nominee).
Well he WAS. His Congresscritter did it.
There's lots of that to go around.
Michael Schiavo's star witness was a neurologist named Ronald Cranford. He testified that Terri was indeed in a PVS and Greer accepted his testimony as convincing. Problem is, he's a well-known euthanasia who is a professional witness in cases like this, always testifying that patients are in a PVS.
One of his patients, Robert Wendland, could operate his own wheelchair and pick up colored blocks correctly, but that didn't stop Cranford from testifying to his PVS state. Fortunately the CA Supreme Court didn't buy it.
He's had patients recover from PVS after he's diagnosed them with it. And he openly admits that he doesn't feel anyone should have a feeding tube, says that a spoon is often artificial life support, and doesn't believe advanced alzheimers patients or PVS patients have constitutional rights.
Should he have been trusted as a credible witness in this case?