How they found Dr. Cheshire..."reknowned neurologist"

[Norquist Nemesis]

Gotta run for now, but here was google search of "minimal state of consciousness Cheshire"

http://www.family.org/physmag/issues/a0029588.cfm (note the site)

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“PVS is a statement of, ‘We don’t need to do anything anymore.’ There’s this general feeling that because this person cannot communicate, he or she is no longer one of us. And as soon as you reach that conclusion, you no longer respect the life in front of you.”

Harris points to the Nancy Cruzan decision: Although the U.S. Supreme Court sided with doctors who said that Cruzan was in PVS, Harris says she wasn’t in PVS at the time her feeding tube was removed in 1990 -- as evidenced by her brain wave activity and the fact that she was responding to people in her room. The lasting impact of the Cruzan case was to consider feeding tubes to be medical interventions -- an idea that is being questioned once again in the Terri Schindler-Schiavo case.

Bill Cheshire, a neurologist with the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., and a fellow at the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity, has seen this kind of looseness applied to potential PVS cases firsthand.

“I’m not sure the diagnosis is used consistently,” he told Physician. “I am sometimes asked if a patient is in PVS, but it’s only been a few days. By definition, you have to wait at least a month.”

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[greenbriar]

1. mayo clinic is a joke...my spouse

spent 10 days with them 14 thousand dollars later (and that is after insurance) and 5 months later they STILL DO NOT know what is going on with him



this "new info" on mrs. schaivo is bogus and a sick attempt to circumvent what is right

[Avalux]

2. He's a fundie nutjob -

“The astonishing pace of biotechnology is serving up critical issues in which the church needs to be engaged,” says Trinity Graduate School alumnus William P. Cheshire, Jr. (MA/Bioethics ’01). Bill is assistant professor of neurology at Mayo Clinic (Jacksonville, Fla.) and serves as adjunct faculty at Trinity Graduate School. He claims that, “even more than terrorism, bioethics presents us with the crucial decisions of our day that the church dare not ignore.” Certainly in today’s post-9/11 environment, there are many possible evil scenarios that can no longer be dismissed as unimportant or morally neutral. And yet, says Bill, there is “among many Christians the dangerous temptation to sit this one out.”

http://www.tiu.edu/trinitymagazine/fall2003/cheshire.htm

[Bluebear]

3. "By definition, you have to wait at least a month"--how about 15 years?

[ender]

4. By definition, you have to wait at least a month.

his own words.

so - what about 15 years?