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.
The Shocking Number of Brain Injuries That Begin With an Ordinary Fall
(River Journal) – Ask people to imagine a traumatic brain injury and many picture something dramatic, like a high-speed car crash, a football collision, or a violent assault. Those injuries happen, and they’re serious. But they leave out one of the most common culprits by a mile. It’s the humble fall. A slip on an […]
Brain-Computer Interface Enables Unresponsive ICU Patients to Control Sounds
(News-Medical.Net) – Unresponsive ICU patients in a new Columbia study were able to raise and lower the frequency of a beeping tone with their minds, via noninvasive EEG electrodes that recorded and translated their brainwaves. The study opens the door to noninvasive brain-computer interfaces that could allow seemingly comatose patients with hidden consciousness to communicate […]
Disabled Canadian Man Says Hospital Repeatedly Offered Assisted Death as He Fought to Stay Alive
(Fox News) – A Canadian man battling a debilitating neurological disease told Fox News Digital that hospital staff repeatedly raised the possibility of medically assisted death while he was fighting for the home care he says he needs to survive. Roger Foley, who has spinocerebellar ataxia, told Fox News Digital in a recent interview that […]
