Posted on 04/15/2005 1:05:20 PM PDT by phenn
Clearwater, FL - The volunteers with the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation were astonished to learn of the behavior of former Dunedin, Florida Attorney Constance d'Angelis. d'Angelis is the former wife of George Felos, legal representative to Michael Schiavo.
In a press release issued through PR Web, titled "Lawyer Who Presented CT Scan & Medical Evidence in Court Analyzes Autopsy Results in Terri Schiavo Case" Ms. d'Angelis claims she will be available to interpret the anticipated Medical Examiner's report on the late Terri Schiavo.
Quoted from her release: "Upon the release of the autopsy report, she can analyze the results and weigh in on the important matters of how--by reason, not emotion--the "persistent vegetative state" diagnosis of Terri Schiavo was arrived at, and why."
The Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation would like to take this opportunity to point out that not only was Ms. d'Angelis co-counsel to George Felos during the guardianship proceedings on behalf of Michael Schiavo, she is not qualified to interpret or analyze a Medical Examiner's report. She is only licensed as an attorney and as a massage therapist.
Ms. d'Angelis is the former owner of lovinglawsuits.com and the author of "Pancha Karma - A Life Changing Experience". She aided George Felos in bringing forth a petition to remove 'artificial life support' from Terri Schiavo that originated in 1998 though current law at that time did not provide for the removal of a feeding tube under Terri's circumstances.
Her release goes on to say: "The judge's February 2000 ruling was sustained throughout numerous appeals in both the State and Federal Courts." However, Ms. d'Angelis fails to make clear that no Federal Court has ever reviewed either Terri's case or the medical evidence presented to the lower court. Instead, they have declined jurisdiction.
It is, therefore, our conclusion that the Ms. d'Angelis is either attempting to capitalize on this tragic situation or preparing to support her former husband's contentions on a subject matter she is wholly unqualified to remark on.
Statement of Pamela Hennessy, Media Coordinator for the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation: "The former Mrs. Felos is not a doctor, a surgeon, a pathologist or even an orderly. She is a massage therapist. Certainly, she can lend absolutely no analysis or insight into the results of the Medical Examiner's report. Rather, she can only recant what her former husband suggests as the truth to Terri's condition. Medical analysis is best left to medical practitioners and not lawyers."
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Ms. d'Angelis Press Release: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/prweb/20050415/bs_prweb/prweb229659_1
Did they really say this? Would've been a good strategy before she died, instead of letting Randall Terry and Fr. Pavone run around doing it.
Does "medical practitioners" include cardiologists 1000 miles away who have only reviewed a few minutes of edited videotape?
As far as I know, the people you mention did not give medical analysis. They merely repeated what they read and said who said it. Again, big difference.
The people who reviewed the video and the medical chart were not cardiologists. They were physicians and neurologists as well as neuroscientists. They reviewed the full video (hours long) and her entire chart (that which hasn't been sealed by the courts).
They can certainly make interpretations, recommendations and educated opinions based on the evidence in front of them.
If only.
I've never seen the amount of half-truths, outright lies, innuendo, distortion, gossip, and rumormongering -- all presented as fact -- as I've seen on the Terri Schiavo threads.
I certainly don't expect that to stop with the ME's report.
From a blog called "Cheat-Seeking Missles":
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Constance Felos: Whoa!
We are told that attorneys and judges are better equipped to make the tough decisions than we are, and that an attorney convincing a judge to take a certain action is more likely to lead to good governance than would 535 elected representatives working to represent their constituents.
One attorney who has recently been involved in establishing important precedence is Constance Felos of Felos & Felos, the second fiddle on Michael Schiavo's lead lawfirm. What are her credentials to be smarter than you? What makes her a better judge than you of who should live and who should die?
Beats me.
I just read this article from the Tampa Bay New Times authored by the female Felos and it did not encourage me regarding the counsel she might provide in life and death matters. It involves her father, who died of infections after gangrene formed following colon cancer surgery:
If one looks for the metaphysical cause of colon cancer one finds the following mental equivalents: carrying of past hatreds; deep, secret, long-standing resentment eating away at the self; inability to digest and move prior 'toxic' experiences out of the body. And the cause of a gangrenous condition is: mental morbidity, the drowning of joy with poisonous thoughts. [I'm glad she's a lawyer, not a doctor!] So, what really killed my father was his deep, secret resentment and hatred, his inability to forgive, and release his attachment to the belief that life is disappointing, shameful and unloving. He searched and searched for another 'grandfather' in the form of a doctor to save him. But, it could never happen because the only way to 'save' ourselves is to eliminate the real cause of the problem. That process occurs within the self, not in some outside source. [The "look within" set don't seem to get it. They say all are problems can be fixed by looking within -- but what's within? All the problems we're trying to fix! I much prefer looking outside, but she says:] No matter how long and hard we search for something outside of ourselves to heal us, we will always come up empty handed.
To her, the only way for Terri to be healed is to eliminate the cause of the problem. Since she is the cause of Constance's client's problem, she has to be eliminated. And since Terri apparently does not have the mental accuity to run through Connie's convoluted, inward-looking thinking here, letting her die would obviously not be a problem for femFelos.
God save us from New Wavers.
posted by Laer at 9:44 PM
Perhaps.
But, try to understand that the meat of this particular case has not been reported. There are a lot of things that you don't know yet. I imagine people get a little eager in their interpretations, but consider them for what they are and move on to the information that can be documented. There's a great deal of that and all of it should make you uncomfortable.
I almost wrote in my post that I wondered how long it would be before the WPPFF crowd showed up? We should have taken bets.
I see it did not take long for them to pop in. Must they invade every thread? We all know what that small group thinks. Terri needed to starve to death, Christians are crazy, etc.... same ole, same ole.
Anyway, thanks for posting this.
If you're referring to those 15 doctors, I don't believe they reviewed the full video, and only one of the 15 looked at her chart.
Who are you talking about?
This whole case just gets wierder and wierder. I was a big skeptic about this whole thing until about 60 days ago, never even read the threads. I don't know where this is going, but nothing would shock me now.
Given the world-wide coverage of this case, that surprises me.
Well, nevermind the media. Do it on your own. Research what Florida law in 1998 was regarding the removal of feeding tubes. This was the year MS petitioned the court.
Then, read how the law changed in 1999 with regards to feeding tubes. All the information is on www.flsenate.gov.
Now look a little deeper and find out who commissioned the changes in those laws.
That is the meat of the matter. We have tried and tried to get the media to pay attention. They haven't and they shan't and that's the truth, Ruth.
Um, one of them was. And he proclaimed with certainty that Terri was not PVS. On TV. But he's not really practicing medicine now, because he's tied up with being the majority leader in the U.S. Senate.
Judge Greer?
And God save us from Druids.
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