Talk:Terri Schiavo case/Mediation/Dave

message: So now I'm being a "bully" for wanting this article to be truthful? The fact is that the M.Schiavo supporters here have subjected me and other people who disagree with them (like Pat and Gordon) to a continual barrage of vicious personal attacks, which neither I nor any of the other Terri-supporters have never stooped to. So who's the "bully?"
My criticism is directed toward the faults of the article. This article is grossly inaccurate and severely POV-biased. For example, consider this excerpt from the opening section:
:"three doctors selected by the courts ... diagnosed her to be in a persistent vegetative state."
That's just plain false. There were not three doctors selected by the courts. There was only one doctor, Dr. Peter Bambakidis, who was selected by Judge Greer after he had already ruled that Terri should die. The other two court-selected doctors apparently do not even exist. (Anyhow, three weeks have elapsed since I challenged the M.Schiavo supporters here to identify them, and nobody has done so.)
Here's a little bit more context:
:"Eight doctors examined Schiavo. Six (her family physician, three doctors selected by the courts, and two selected by Michael) diagnosed her to be in a persistent vegetative state. Two guardians ad litem concurred with this decision. The two remaining doctors (both selected by Schiavo's parents) dissented, arguing that Schiavo was in a 'minimally conscious state.'"
Consider the numerous inaccuracies and examples of POV bias in just that little snippet:
* It invents two non-existent doctors "selected by the courts" who (supposedly) diagnosed her to be in a PVS. (I first pointed out this problem weeks ago, and nobody expressed disagreement with me, and nobody was able to identify the two mystery doctors... but the false statement remains in the article.)
* It ignores the disagreement between Judge Greer and his chosen doctor, Peter Bambakidis. Even Bambakidis did not rule out the possibility that Terri was conscious. He said only that a "preponderance of evidence" (the weakest evidentiary standard) supported PVS.
* It omits the Cheshire diagnosis, that Terri was probably in a MCS. Cheshire the doctor who examined Terri for the Florida Department of Children and Familes. He was arguably the only unbiased, independent physician to examine her, and he concluded that she was most likely conscious.
* It hides the fact that the so-called "family physician" (Victor Gambone) was actually part of the M.Schiavo/Felos-selected team working for Terri's demise. He was hand-picked by Michael Schiavo and his attorney, George Felos, shortly before they sued to have Terri's feeding tube removed. He was Terri's physician in name only, and never gave her meaningful treatment. He testified that, after an initial one-hour examination, he visited Terri three times per year, and that his visits lasted for approximately 10 minutes. NCdave 00:16, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: "You surrendered any credibilty you might have had in lobbying for it when you earlier asserted that the article is also far from accurate yet you were willing to capitulate your integrity and compromise to solely the NPOV tag. Duckecho 19:54, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: NC Dave's 1200-word summary