So Dr. Cheshire says Terri Schiavo was misdiagnosed...

[Avalux]

...Jeb must've asked him for a favor. Here's some interesting info on Dr. William Cheshire...

“The astonishing pace of biotechnology is serving up critical issues in which the church needs to be engaged,” says Trinity Graduate School alumnus William P. Cheshire, Jr. (MA/Bioethics ’01). Bill is assistant professor of neurology at Mayo Clinic (Jacksonville, Fla.) and serves as adjunct faculty at Trinity Graduate School. He claims that, “even more than terrorism, bioethics presents us with the crucial decisions of our day that the church dare not ignore.” Certainly in today’s post-9/11 environment, there are many possible evil scenarios that can no longer be dismissed as unimportant or morally neutral. And yet, says Bill, there is “among many Christians the dangerous temptation to sit this one out.”

Admitting to his failed relationship with Christ, Bill realized that, “while for many years I had accepted Christian doctrine intellectually, I had not fully comprehended it in my heart.” This is when “I felt the Lord drawing me irresistibly closer to him. I put aside many things in my busy schedule, left behind the research projects that could have led to academic promotion, and started spending time daily studying the Bible with the purpose of getting to know the Lord. Reading the New Testament,” says Bill, “left me hungry for more, so I read the Old Testament, completing all of the Bible in four months.”

That faded past of spiritual neglect has not slowed Bill’s pace, as he now exerts godly influence and authority in a field overrun with moral ambiguity, if not spiritual rebellion. Consider the prevailing notion that human embryos and infants—according to the teachings of some mainstream bioethicists—are only clumps of cells, neither fully human nor morally relevant beings. Peter Singer, for example, is the Ira W. DeCamp professor of bioethics at Princeton University’s Center for Human Values and, by many accounts, has developed to a fine art the rhetoric of misguided moral relativism. (One group even heralds his ethical stance, recently awarding him its 2003 World Technology Award in the ethics category.)7 Take, for example, the following passage from his Practical Ethics (1993), cited here from the chapter “Justifying Infanticide” in Writings on an Ethical Life: “The fact that a being is a human being . . . is not relevant to the wrongness of killing it; it is, rather, characteristics like rationality, autonomy, and self-consciousness that make a difference. Infants lack these characteristics. Killing them, therefore, cannot be equated with killing normal human beings.

http://www.tiu.edu/trinitymagazine/fall2003/cheshire.htm

[Name removed]

1. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[Avalux]

5. He should have his license yanked for this

A formal complaint to the Florida board may be in order.

[Bluebear]

10. You said it.

[Redstone]

21. He doesn't NEED a license...

Jesus will just allow him to keep practicing medicine. And protect him from malpractice and fraud suits as well, no doubt.

Actually, why would he need to "practice medicine" anyway? Can't he just whistle up his pal Jesus for a quick miracle or two?

Redstone

[Chalco]

22. If I'm reading this right, this guys an MA which means he's

not a Ph.D. or an M.D., therefore, he's not licensed or qualified to say squat. He doesn't have a license to take away. If this is the guy Jeb is using to make a case, he's in big trouble.

[eallen]

24. He's a board-certified neurologist.

Who returned to get an MA in bioethics.

[Chalco]

27. Thanks for the info. nt

[janx]

11. This is what I don't understand. Has he or has he not

examined her? What was he doing by the side of her bed?

[Avalux]

12. It was reported he stood by her bed

but did not perform a physical examination. That's all I heard. If this is the case, he has no business making any kind of comment on her diagnosis.

[janx]

17. This makes no sense whatsoever!

How long did it take them to find a fundie bioethicist, and what did he do to come to the conclusion that she's not PVS if all he did was "stand by the side of her bed" ??

[Avalux]

20. He thinks he's God

there's 15 years of medical documentation and this fellow waltzes in at the 11th hour and proclaims Terri's been misdiagnosed.

"as he now exerts godly influence and authority in a field overrun with moral ambiguity"
(from the above mentioned article)

[Name removed]

26. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[BrklynLiberal]

14. Absorbing the aura..?

[Avalux]

15. lol! n/t

[janx]

16. That's what I mean! What was he doing? LOL!

:shrug:

[Tansy_Gold]

18. You're more restrained than I, Brklyn

I'd have suggested this fuckwad was jacking off.


(Am I allowed to say that on DU? I never did before. . . . . .)




Tansy Gold, not ashamed at all

[maveric]

2. OMFG!!

But I really shouldnt be surprised, should I?

[Lindacooks]

3. If he's read the entire Bible, then he's read the contradictions

and factual errors. If he won't admit to those, then he's lying about having read the Bible.

And infants do not lack 'autonomy and self-consciousness'. That's just plain ridiculous, as anyone who has ever held a newborn knows.

[notadmblnd]

9. It takes more than 4 month to comprehend what the bible says

sure I can read the book, oh.... probably in two weeks. It doesn't make me a theologist. People have devoted their entire lives to understanding Gawd word and most never get it right.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

4. Next thing you know these people

will be bringing forth the janitor of the hospice center to giver his "expert" opnion about Terri.

[Dirty Hippie]

6. And how long did it take for them to find this guy? n/t

[Avalux]

7. Not long I'm sure

Jeb probably just had to make a phone call.

[guinivere]

8. They probably have had this guy lined up for awhile. nt

[BrklynLiberal]

13. Obviously a totally objective, medical opinion.....????????

:silly:

[Cooley Hurd]

19. Cheshire's a fundie and he didn't want to get kicked out of his church

...like Judge Greer did.

[Walt Starr]

23. They've worked the religiously insane into a froth and ......

are unable to put the genie back i the bottle, so they are about to use the nuclear option of dictatorship.

Frightening times we live in.

[plcdude]

25. check out the

expert that Jeb originally asked to evaluate Terri.

http://www.davidcorn.com/2005/03/jeb_bushs_exper.php

This should put to rest the continuing dishonesty or the media and the Governor or Florida.