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...spouse, Michael Schiavo, who is a nurse, had decision-making power over his wife's treatment after he found her unconscious on the floor of their Florida home in February 1990. The 26-year-old had suffered cardiac arrest; her brain was severely damaged by lack of oxygen. Two years later, Michael won a malpractice suit against Terri's doctor. The jury awarded $700,000 for Terri's care and $300,000 to Michael for loss of companionship. In 1998 Michael sought permission to remove his wife's feeding tube, arguing that she had told him years earlier that...
...Schiavo's battle with his in-laws began shortly after the $1 million award; it has grown increasingly venomous. The Schindlers have accused Michael of abusing Terri and causing her death. They have charged him with wasting the money handed over for her care on legal fees and refusing to provide the right therapy. The relationship has not been helped by the fact that Michael has had a child with a girlfriend. The Schindlers have met with Jeb Bush, Florida's ardently right-to-life Governor, who has directed his legal staff to explore ways in which he might intervene...
...Michael Schiavo refuses to speak to the press, but his lawyer George Felos dismisses the Schindlers' accusations: "Not only are they totally false, they are malicious." He rejects the notion that Terri could recover with therapy. The Florida court agreed with him last year after three of five doctors who examined Terri found her to be in a vegetative state. Only the two doctors chosen by the Schindlers disagreed. "She is in a classic permanent vegetative state," says neurologist Ronald Cranford, an expert on the condition at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minn. Cranford examined Terri...
...turning toward a voice. "There are many, many behaviors that look like conscious behavior that are reflexive or automatic," says Joseph Giacino, associate director of neuropsychology at the JFK Medical Center and the New Jersey Neuro-science Institute in Edison, N.J. After looking at the videos of Terri Schiavo for TIME, Giacino said, "This is not compelling evidence. It's interesting and suggestive. But most of these responses could occur in a vegetative state...
...minimally conscious state." Minimally conscious patients are more responsive to the world than vegetative patients and, significantly, retain the potential to become fully conscious. The famous 1996 case of the "coma cop" involved a police officer who was almost certainly minimally conscious and briefly recovered consciousness after seven years. Schiavo's parents tried but failed to establish that this was their daughter's condition...