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  • the hospital did a CAT scan of little Nikki and found a swollen, bleeding brain believed at the time to be a classic sign of shaken baby syndrome.

    There are, indeed, conditions that will cause a brain to bleed inside the skull. Those conditions don’t explain all the head injuries outside the skull: the hematomas and hemmorhaging between the skin and the skull.

    If you want to argue against the death penalty, go ahead. I lean against it; you don’t have to convince me.

    But we do a disservice to every actual innocent convict when we pretend a guilty man is innocent just to avoid a sentence we abhor.

    If you want to explain the myriad serious head injuries in some way that absolves him of responsibility, I’m listening.




  • From wiki:

    According to prosecutors, physicians reported that Nikki suffered and ultimately died of “massive head trauma”. Prosecutors argued that in the emergency room, Nikki was found to have “[a] bruise on the back of her shoulder, a scraped elbow, a bruise over her right eyebrow, bruises on her chin, a bruise on her left cheek, an abrasion next to her left eye, multiple bruises on the back of her head, a torn frenulum in her mouth, bruising on the inner surface of the lower lip, subscapular and subgaleal hemorrhaging between her skin and her skull, subarachnoid bleeding, subdural hematoma, both pre-retinal and retinal hemorrhages and brain edema.”[12] Additionally, four separate doctors testified Nikki had “multiple blows to different points on the head,” which could not have been caused by falling off a bed.[13] At trial, Roberson’s defense expert admitted that Roberson “lost it” and shook Nikki because he could not stop her from crying.[13]




  • If you already know what is wrong and just need a doctor’s note (and maybe antibiotics), go to the clinic. While their staff are significantly more skilled knowledgeable than the general public, their policies limit them to only simple diagnostics and treatments. Your medical knowledge is certainly less than that of the Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants that staff these clinics, but likely exceeds the scope of practice they are limited to by their employer. If you don’t know what the problem is, the clinic is going to refer you to your PCP or urgent care anyway, so you should only visit the clinic to appease HR or get access to basic prescription medications.

    If something is bothering you, but you can tolerate it for a couple weeks, schedule an appointment with primary care.

    If you don’t know what’s wrong, or you need something more than a note and a prescription, and you can transport yourself, go to urgent care.

    The only time you should go to the ER voluntarily is if urgent care sends you there. Any other trip to the ER should be because someone dragged you there without giving you a choice.