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...local prosecutor immediately launched an investigation. Anneliese, it seems, was a case straight out of The Exorcist. Ever since high school she had been subject to convulsive seizures, attacks that a neurologist diagnosed as epilepsy. Doctors had little success in treating her. Her devout parents, in desperation, began consulting priests. Finally, with permission from Bishop Josef Stangl of Wūrzburg, they brought in two exorcists-Father Arnold Renz, a former missionary in China, and Father Ernst Alt, a pastor in a nearby community. For ten months, beginning last September and continuing until shortly before her death, the two priests...
...parietal area of the brain. She was considered in serious but not critical condition. Although she was placed in an intensive care unit, she remained conscious and coherent. Nevertheless, she was expected to be hospitalized for at least ten days. Nixon's personal physician, Dr. John Lundgren, and Neurologist Jack M. Mosier said the stroke had been caused by a small hemorrhage or clot in the right cerebral cortex. Unless the effects of the stroke spread, Pat Nixon was expected to recover, but it remained uncertain whether she would be able to walk normally again...
None of the medical experts held out any hope that Karen could ever recover. Dr. Julius Korein, a neurologist at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, said it most dramatically when he likened Karen to a child without a brain. Karen, he made clear, is not in a "locked-in" syndrome-i.e., a state in which she sees, hears or understands but cannot communicate. She is, said Korein, a vegetable. His description was so disturbing that Mrs. Quinlan, who had maintained her composure throughout the proceedings, slipped quietly from the room...
...leave the patient to her doctors. So does Ralph Porzio, the lawyer for those doctors. "Miss Quinlan must be viewed as a patient undergoing treatment," says Porzio. Some outside doctors feel the same way. To allow the court to decide the Quinlan case, says Dr. David Posqanzer, a neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, "is taking the judgment of a doctor and putting it in the hands of those not competent to make a decision-the courts...
...anguish is already five months old. For a while, Julia Ann Quinlan prayed for Karen's recovery, then that "God would take her." Joseph Quinlan, a section supervisor at Warner-Lambert, a pharmaceutical company, found it harder to give up, but "finally, I had to." Karen's neurologist declared she had "extensive cerebral damage" and saw "no hope." Nonetheless a respirator and other medical aid promised to hold her almost indefinitely in her limbo between life and death. The Quinlans realized they would have to take an affirmative step to allow Karen...