"The president is brain-dead."--Joe Biden on July 4th, 2007 in Des Moines, Iowa
Irresponsible claim (and wrong medical diagnosis)
During a campaign stop in Iowa on July 4, the six-term senator declared, “This guy is brain-dead.”
It’s an extreme charge, since brain death is defined as “irreversible unconciousness with complete loss of brain function” (Encyclopedia of Death and Dying).
Needless to say, we find the charge ridiculous. There’s no evidence Biden performed the necessary medical tests to make such a diagnosis. We would have accepted the results of a cerebral blood flow study or proof that Biden had examined Bush to see if he had an oculocephalic reflex.
Indeed, even people who disagree with the president about Iraq and assorted other issues will acknowledge that the president has spontaneous respiration and is responding to stimuli.
2 comments:
Wonder what the ruling woulda been 4 the Bill Frist Terry Schiavo medical analysis?
Well can we assume that like in the Left Behind novels that the devil has entered bodily into him?
I finally read (the) Left Behind (synopisis on Wikipedia). Exciting! Is there some sort of process where we can vote for it to be another new testament? Or at least packaged with the bible in a collectors' set?
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