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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (22967)	4/16/2005 8:24:48 AM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 81019

Gus > In 1999, a U.S. Congressman recommended him in a letter to the Nobel Committee for his work with stroke patients I certainly don't wish to debate Dr Hammesfahr's credentials. As far as I am concerned, they are not important, including whether he was recommended for a Nobel prize or he made claims for a dubious product. Sufficient that he is a medical practitioner and, indeed, one who has had some experience with stroke patients. And, as it happens, he considered Terri worthy of a "trial" of life. That's the only point I am making -- that with these patients no-one really knows. Some say this, some say that -- and occasionally, very occasionally, some patients "recover". And, as I also mentioned, the possibility of "recovery" was not all that important in this case because her parents were prepared to care for her "as is". Further, she was not using any essential resources, her "treatment" did not jeopardize that of anyone else who might have required it and the state and/or the taxpayers were not in any way involved. Basically, it was a simple, private matter, one could almost say like looking after a sick animal, but it became complicated by politics and the legal process.