Welcome
Bobby Schindler is President of the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network, Senior Fellow at Americans United for Life, and Associate Scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute. Bobby advocates for the medically vulnerable in honor of Terri Schiavo, his sister. He speaks internationally, and can be booked for speaking through Catholic Speakers Organization.
Advocating for
medically vulnerable persons
As a result of my experiences fighting for my sister Terri, I’ve devoted my life to advocacy for medically vulnerable persons. Since 2005, through our non-profit organization, the Terri Schaivo Life & Hope Network, we’ve assisted more than 3,000 patients and families in crisis with the resources they’ve needed to fight for their loved ones. I’m grateful for your willingness to learn how these vulnerable persons face denial/withdraw of care by their physicians, hospitals, and insurance companies—those very people and institutions that should be helping them.
‘He’s Nothing But a Miracle’: Family Launches Fund to Help Son’s Brain Injury Recovery
(KOTA) – For Daneen and Robert Martin, every morning begins with a prayer of gratitude, and an overwhelming checklist of medical care. Their son, Steven, was inside his family’s home on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation when a stray bullet pierced through an exterior wall and struck him in the head. Doctors initially gave him […]
Brainstem May Hold The Switch For Human Awareness
(Study Finds) – Stimulate the cortex, the wrinkled outer layer of the brain long credited with thought and self-awareness, and it almost never produces pain. Stimulate pain pathways running through the brainstem, a much older structure buried at the base of the skull, and pain follows. That contrast anchors a new theory in the journal […]
Major Shift Needed in TBI and Spinal Cord Injury Management, Experts Say
(Medscape) – Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and spinal cord injury (SCI) should be managed as chronic, multisystem conditions requiring lifelong follow-up, experts said. In a Policy View, an international panel of 29 specialists in neurology, rehabilitation, neurosurgery, and related fields proposes a prevention-first pathway built around neurotrauma care navigators; scheduled screening; telehealth; and closer links […]
