Congresswoman shot dead in arizona

[Little Whiskey]

they think the doctors are the ones who killed Lincoln and not Booth's bullet. had they left him alone he might have survived.

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I know you mean President Kennedy, but it reminded me of an article I read quite a while ago about the Robert Kennedy shooting. Several trauma experts agreed that an injury like Robert Kennedy sustained is now actually quite survivable because of techniques they have to control swelling, etc. Certainly not a sure thing, but unlike then, he would have had a chance now, and may have had even just 10-15 years after his shooting. A lot changed just after that, apparently. They differed about what he might have been like if he had survived.

i know YOU mean RFK. but when i heard she survived the first think i thought was could ,medical technology really be that much improved from the times of JFK? could doctors today have saved JFK? of course the answer is probably no because he lost a lot of brain, but he was alive for a bit after the shot, i think he even made it to the hospital alive.

i never even thought about RFK. but it is amazing to see how far medicine has come in just 30 or 40 years

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they think the doctors are the ones who killed Lincoln and not Booth's bullet. had they left him alone he might have survived.

lincoln survived to the next day didn't he? i wouldn't doubt the medical practices of the day didn't help. if you got shot in the arm or leg they just cut it off to prevent infection

[Joemailman]

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7071IA20110112

Giffords would sustain some permanent brain damage from her bullet injury, Rhee said, although he remained hopeful she would recover to a "functional, viable, normal" state.

"I think ... without doubt. .. there's going to be some permanent damage that's going to occur from the bullet .... but will she be functional, viable, normal? I can't say for sure, but I'm very hopeful that she will be," he said.

Hopefully, she will not suffer any of the severe behavioral changes that sometimes happen even if her political career may be over.

[Little Whiskey]

lincoln survived to the next day didn't he? i wouldn't doubt the medical practices of the day didn't help. if you got shot in the arm or leg they just cut it off to prevent infection

I asked my wife (who is a History Geek) she said he didn't lived thru the night. they were trying to dig the bullet out of his head. had they left it alone, he would have lived.