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Dr. Ron Cranford, neurologist, assesses Terri's brain function as part of a court-ordered examination. His exam shows that Terri's cerebral cortex has been completely destroyed; he finds that her upper brain is 80% destroyed, and there is much damage to the lower brain. April 26: Terri's feeding tube is removed for the first time.
[2] Pauline Chen reviewed the book for The New York Times, noting that Sanders "takes readers on an examination of the tools of diagnosis, touching upon the obvious and the not-so-obvious". [3] Druin Burch, for New Scientist, wrote that the book puts medical rarities "into a wider context, offering up a profound view of how doctors think". [4]
This time the diagnosis was a stage 1b seminoma, and he had surgery to remove his remaining testicle, followed by androgen replacement therapy consisting of a weekly self-administered injection of testosterone. (He has joked, "It's so easy even an ophthalmologist can do it.") By this point, he and his wife had two children. [3]
A study done in 2003 found that 90% of Pennsylvania medical students had done pelvic exams on anesthetized patients during their gynecology rotation. [5] One medical student described performing them "for 3 weeks, four to five times a day, I was asked to, and did, perform pelvic examinations on anesthetized women, without specific consent, solely for the purpose of my education."
Authorities say Lee Mongerson Gilley, 38, allegedly strangled his wife, 38-year-old Christa Bauer Gilley, to death at their home in Houston on Oct. 7, killing both her and their unborn child.
For the next two years, doctors attempted occupational therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy and other experimental therapy, hoping to return her to a state of awareness, without success. In 1998, Schiavo's husband Michael Schiavo petitioned the Sixth Circuit Court of Florida to remove her feeding tube pursuant to Florida law. [ 3 ]
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