Patterico’s Pontifications

3/21/2005

Terri Schiavo’s CT Scan

Filed under: Schiavo — Patterico @ 10:30 pm

CodeBlueBlog has this interesting analysis of Terri Schiavo’s CT scan.

If there are any other medical professionals out there with a view about this, I’d love to hear it.

8 Comments

  1. The scan seems fake, however the analysis of it is accurate.

    Comment by Ladainian — 3/22/2005 @ 12:07 am

  2. The problem with CTs is that they are not the final word. I had a minor, transient stroke earlier this year. Got a CT and it showed nothing. A subsequent MRI determined that I did have a stroke, and its location.

    Let me add that the CT in question was done some years ago. I dare say a CT done today would show a different situation.

    Comment by Alan Kellogg — 3/22/2005 @ 12:28 am

  3. This is great. The bloggers are going to free us from the tyranny if the MD’s.

    Comment by actus — 3/22/2005 @ 6:05 am

  4. Which MDs? The ones who agree with you, or the ones who disagree?

    Comment by Xrlq — 3/22/2005 @ 7:18 am

  5. Any 75-85 year old with that scan is Terri Schiavo. The amount of brain tissue missing is stunning. The enlarged ventricles [central space, )( ] are frightening, the highlighted sulci-gyri [peripheral frond-like structures] are macbre. This is not your grandmother.

    [I did not "read" c-t's, but saw many normal and abnormal ones. Nothing compares to Terri's. Why would it?]

    Comment by J. Peden — 3/22/2005 @ 8:03 am

  6. “macabre” - I need a scan.

    Comment by J. Peden — 3/22/2005 @ 8:05 am

  7. “Which MDs? The ones who agree with you, or the ones who disagree? ”

    Which ones agree with me? I think this whole thing is fantastic. Distributed diagnosis. Where is the Kerning in the CT scan? Ahh.. the web.

    Comment by actus — 3/22/2005 @ 8:32 am

  8. Some technical analyses can be followed quite adequately by an interested, informed layperson. Others can’t.

    The logic–or illogic–underlying a position is almost always accessible to such a person.

    Some welcome this unexpected increase in transparency; others don’t. Either way, these aren’t hard concepts to grasp.

    Comment by AMac — 3/22/2005 @ 11:20 am

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