What killed Terry Schiavo

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...and why we should care and talk about that at least as much as we've yammered on about whether she should have been kept alive after it happened.

therealjae hits the nail on the head.

(Several folks on my flist posted this already, but I'm passing it on in case there are folks on mine who aren't on theirs.)

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Re: What killed Terry Schiavo

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i wrote about this in a couple of comments i left elsewhere -- it's astounding how many people in this thread you linked to hadn't even heard of it; what the heck were they reading? not any primary sources, that's for sure. michael schiavo won his malpractice suit based on the doctors not properly diagnosing bulimia!

Re: What killed Terry Schiavo

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Most people don't read primary sources. Which probably isn't a good thing. Most media don't relay the information from primary sources accurately. Which probably isn't a good thing. And round and round we go, and what am I doing in this handbasket?

I read The New Yorker (my mother's copy) for decades, and in the past one would expect The New Yorker to do a pretty detailed investigation that would include such information. These days, though, I don't know.