 Re: Why Did "Aids Baby" Eliza Jane Really Die?
JanD wrote:
> "HCN" <hcn@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Nicholas J Bennett MB/Ph.D claims to have a medical degree, I don't see MD
> behind his name.
When one trains in the UK or Australia, one is an MB. Peter Moran and/or
Peter Bowditch explained that many years ago.
> he must be in hiding, a search turns up VERY little.
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> What's more, the fact that HCN, posted the pdf, most likely means this
> Nicholas J Bennett most likely is a *paid off* witch hunter.
Of course Jan will say that. The fact that al-Bayati has a business
which does that is utterly meaningless to her.
A search under
> his name with the MB/Ph.D turns up very little. WHY would any doctor, use
MB
> and NOT MD behind his name?
Because he is being accurate!
Read the first two pages of the PDF file of his rebuttal of al-Bayati
and see just who he is.
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> Comments on Al-Bayati Report from Dr. Harold E. Buttram, MD, FAAEM
> One expert to comment is Dr. Harold E. Buttram, MD, FAAEM (Fellow of the
> American Academy of Emergency Medicine). He reviewed Al-Bayati's report an
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> wrote this letter in response:
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> October 30th 2005
> For the past several years I have had the privilege of becoming
> familiar with the work of Dr. Mohammed Ali Al-Bayati through mutually shar
ed
> cases involving alleged parental child abuse in the form of shaken baby
> syndrome (SBS). In these cases, each of us wrote medical reports defending
> parents whom we believed were falsely accused.
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> Regarding my own background, in the past six years I have written
> approximately 80 medical reports in defense of parents whom I believed to
> have been falsely accused of violent physical child abuse, largely involvi
ng
> charges of SBS. With few exceptions in these cases, I have observed a
> troubling pattern of abandonment of the usual thoroughness one finds in
> medical centers once suspicions of SBS were raised. In most cases that I
> have reviewed, in my opinion, there have been varying degrees of negligenc
e
> in working through differential diagnoses, sometimes missing the most
> obvious of alternate non-traumatic causes.
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> In the present case of the autopsy report on Eliza Jane Scovill, in
my
> opinion, there is a similar pattern; that is, diagnostic assumptions have
> been made based on superficial evaluation with little if any attempt to
> investigate other possible causes of the child's three-week illness
> culminating in death.
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> Regarding Dr. Al-Bayati, I consider him to be a master craftsman in
a
> broad field of medical expertise. His workups are exhaustive and meticulou
s,
> yet plainly written so as to be accessible to reasonably educated
> non-medical people. He makes no statements or claims that he does not
> document in the medical literature.
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> In the case of Eliza Jane Scovill, I first reviewed the autopsy
> report, which did in fact give rise to personal concerns and doubts.
> However, after going through Dr. Al-Bayati's report point-by-point, he put
> all doubts to rest. There is no question in my mind that his report
> accurately describes the true causes in the death of Eliza Jane Scovill.
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> Harold E Buttram, MD, FAAEM
> Quakertown, PA, USA
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> Comments from Dr. Andrew Maniotis
> Dr. Maniotis is a Professor of Pathology and Program Director in the Cell
> and Developmental Biology of Cancer at the university of Illinois at
> Chicago.
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> November 21st 2005
> Dear Ms. Maggiore:
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> I read Dr. Al-Bayati's report this weekend with a magnifying lens. I
> analyze many similar reports in the course of a single week, as I am a
> Professor of Pathology at UIC in the heart of Chicago, at one of the natio
n's
> largest medical schools.
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> What I can say about the quality of the report - its thoroughness,
> insights, the examples chosen to present as differential diagnosis - is th
at
> it is perhaps one of the most thorough, if not the most thorough, and
> well-studied investigations I have ever seen. If only more pathologists
> could study Dr. Al-Bayati's logical and scientific methodology more
> carefully, there would be little need for inquests, malpractice, fraud, an
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> certainly less medical error in autopsies, diagnosis, treatment, or critic
al
> care practices.
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> I would only emphasize something in the report that Dr. Al-Bayati
> developed quite adequately himself from a technical standpoint by his
> stating and showing how the independent neuroconsultant didn't perform the
> proper controls for the p24 staining of the microglia and neurons. It shou
ld
> not escape the attention of the reader, especially those readers not
> familiar with the technicalities of the language of these kinds of reports
,
> that the detection of the p24 antigen is not in any way diagnostic of the
> presence of HIV, or any other virus or pathogenic state that I am aware of
.
> Positive staining for p24 in this case, as in all cases in the published
> literature, is without scientific basis since positive staining can be fou
nd
> also in normal tissues and contexts, as Dr. Al-Bayati suggests by pointing
> out that the proper p24 controls were not performed in the LA coroner's
> report.
>
> I wish you the very best, and hope with all of my being that this
> horrible state affairs that you and your family have been subjected to, du
e
> to the incompetent and mindless analysis done by the original LA coroner a
nd
> their consultant, ends as soon as possible.
>
> I state unequivocally that Dr. Al-Bayati's analysis and report
> represent the state of the art in terms of methodology, completeness, and
> accuracy, and should be presented in the textbooks as models of how to do
a
> differential diagnosis.
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> Andrew Maniotis, PhD.
> Program Director in the Cell and Developmental Biology of Cancer,
> 3370 Molecular Biology Research Building,
> Department of Pathology, Anatomy and Cell Biology, and Bioengineerin
g,
> 1819 West Polk Street, Room 446, (MC 847)
> university of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
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Neither of whom are certified in forensice pathology.
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