Keith Augustine interview

Yep, I think I have, although in my defense it was not intentional... so I do owe you an apology Tim... Sorry.    

It is clear after rereading that paper again that I am getting the arterial lines muddled up with the femoral lines, and that you are quite correct, the femoral lines are only inserted after the scull has been opened and the aneurysm inspected. And that burst suppression is maintained throughout surgery.

This does seem to suggest to me that it is more likely that Pam was in burst suppression after all. I'm still unsure on this one though, I'd still want to see some hard evidence that this was the case during Pam's surgery.

I wonder why Spetzler never wrote this up as a short paper, if as you claim, he believes that Pam was definitely under burst suppression. Why on earth wouldn't he produce the recordings and notes to support the case? He seemed happy to go on TV and talk about it, and I can't believe Pam would have had any objections.

Wait, now I'm confused. You now admit that you were mistaken and that Tim is correct, right? Yet you immediately do an about-face and say that you need hard evidence. Of what? 

Again, are you suggesting that Spetzler may have lied? Why would he? As I said above, this is not the kind of thing that medical professionals are in a hurry to be associated with. If he was "happy to go on TV" then surely that was a brave thing to do while expecting the inevitable backlash from a skeptical medical community. And doesn't Tim point out that his assistant, Dr Karl Greene, concurs?