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From Defina

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I tried posting on a message board but had trouble:

This is about the Philip DeFina page

Much of what is written here is far-fetched and not true. I have attached some links so you can decide for yourself. I also attached some links describing acts of fraud, corruption and mistreatment of employees at the NJ Meadowlands Hospital. The sources you posted here are out-dated and uninformed. Yes, Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy (HBOT) was controversial at the time, but has since then gained significant support from many in the medical community. Attached are links from medical journals describing HBOT. As for the Jahi McMath case, you should read the California Medical Malpractice summary (also attached). After reading this you'll begin to see why the Oakland, CA hospital had motivation for issuing such a quick death certificate for young Jahi. Or you can read just read this:

• Non-economic damages, defined as compensation for pain, suffering, inconvenience, physical impairment, disfigurement, and other non-pecuniary injury, are limited to $250,000. Id. The cap applies whether the case is for injury or death, and it allows only one $250,000 recovery in a wrongful death case. Yates v. Pollock -

There is authority, however, for allowing separate caps for the patient and a spouse claiming loss of consortium. Atkins v. Strayhorn I attached some additional articles on Jahi, and some news links for the International Brain Research Foundation, which is currently under contract with the United States Department of Defense for developing one of their brain research protocols.

• Also, Fielding Graduate Institute wasn’t an online school when DeFina graduated.

This is supposed to be rational information, but all I read is biased accusations with little support.

HBOT: http://oxfordhbot.com/hbot-for-autism/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22987458 Jahi: http://www.nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/415102/jahi-malpractice-vs-shes-not-dead-cases-wesley-j-smith

IBRF: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/07/24/exclusive-nassau-cop-struck-by-drunk-driver-making-remarkable-recovery/ http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/16/sports/baseball/16coma.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/09/sports/baseball/09pitcher.html?pagewanted=all http://www.sj-r.com/article/20130915/News/309159937 http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=53606

IBRF/Dr. DeFina publications: Hilz, M. J., Moeller, S., Akhundova, A., Marthol, H. Pauli, E., DeFina, P. A., & Schwab, S. (In press). High NIHSS values predict impairment and cardiovascular autonomic control. Stroke.

Schatz, P., Moser, R.S., Covassin, T., & Karpf, R. (2011). Early indicators of enduring symptoms in high school athletes with multiple previous concussions. Neurosurgery.

DeFina, P. A. & Moser, R. S. (2010). A summary of neuroscience contributions to the understanding of dyscalculia in children. In A. S. Davis (Ed.), Handbook of Pediatric Neuropsychology. New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.

DeFina, P.A. & Prestigiacomo, C. (2010). The cerebrovascular system overview. In A. S. Davis (Ed.), Handbook of Pediatric Neuropsychology. New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company.

DeFina, P. A., Fellus, J., Thompson, J. W. G., Eller, M., Moser, R. S., Frisina, P. G., Schatz, P., DeLuca, J., Zigarelli-McNish, M., & Prestigiacomo, C. J. (2010). Improving outcomes of severe disorders of consciousness. Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience.

DeFina, P. A. Fellus, J., Thompson, J. W. G.., Eller, M., Moser, R. S., Frisina, P. G., Schatz, P., DeLuca, J., Zigarelli-McNish, M., Fallahpour, K., & Prestigiacomo, C. J. (2010). Improving outcomes of severe disorders of consciousness. Brain Injury. Supplement.

Moser, R. S., Thompson, J., Eller, M., DeFina, P., Kuflik, A. (2010). Challenges in consent and assent in severe disorders of consciousness patients. Brain Injury. Supplement.

Pollito, M., Thompson, J., & DeFina, P. (2010). A review of the International Brain Research Foundation (IBRF) Novel Approach to Mild Traumatic Brain Injury presented at the International Conference on Behavioral Health and Traumatic Brain Injury. Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.

DeFina, P., Fellus, F., Polito, M.Z., Thompson, J. W. G., Moser, R. S., & DeLuca, J. (2009). The new neuroscience frontier: Promoting neuroplasticity and brain repair in traumatic brain injury. The Clinical Neuropsychologist. 23, 8; p1391-9.

Thatcher, R., North, D., Neubrander, J., Biver, C., Cutler, S., & DeFina, P. (2009). Autism and EEG phase reset: Deficient GABA mediated inhibition in thalamo-cortical circuits. Developmental Neuropsychology. 34, 6; p780-800.

De Fina, P., Bernad, P., & Columbo, J. (2008). The clinical neurosciences (CNS) program at Bellevue Hospital Center, New York, NY. In P. Bernad (3rd Ed), Closed-Head Injury: A Clinical Source Book (pp. 39-51). Lexis-Nexis.

De Fina, P., Bernad, P., & Columbo, J. (2008). Autonomic nervous system monitoring in closed-head injury patients. In P. Bernad (3rd Ed), Closed-Head Injury: A Clinical Source Book (pp. 24-34). Lexis-Nexis.

De Fina, P., Goldberg, F., & Bernad, P. (2008). Neuropsychological Assessment of Closed-Head Injury. In P. Bernad (3rd Ed), Closed-Head Injury: A Clinical Source Book (pp. 15-6). Lexis-Nexis.

tmtoulouse 19:54, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

You're in a grey area here between law and science. The science, no, the Pseudoscience says Jai is alive. The lawyers for the doctors who killed her may have committed malpractice want her dead. The state would have to officially certify the resurrection, has to pay for all this, so it's cheaper and less embarrassing if she's dead. RW should come down on the side of cutting edge scientific researchers like Defina, and damn the greedy lawyers and government institutions that would attack him because of their fuck up. nobs^{I'm not from this planet, but let me tell u what I think....} 02:51, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Cutting edge research published in back water journal articles roundly rejected by pretty much everyone in the field? And speaking of this so called "malpractice" strong evidence has been cited to suggest that she was killed by her family giving her food she should not have had, causing a break in the stitches and then trying to use suction machines to pull out the blood. Notice there is no lawsuit related to her death? Etaroced (talk) 16:28, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Rob only sees what he wants to see. -EmeraldCityWanderer (talk) 20:19, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

"Fringe cases" in opening sentence

TMT, can you flesh that out bit in the opening pgph? "Fringe cases" says almost nothing about what the actual issues at hand are here. Peace. AgingHippie (talk) 16:41, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

Reply to DeFina Request

DeFina's reply (below) above^{Correction inserted by Scream!! (talk)} offers no reason to change anything posted about him. The man is a fraudster and a charlatan. He claims the Wiki content is “far-fetched and not true”, but he offers nothing to authenticate his claims. DeFina simply deflects to state that Meadowlands Hospital had issues and the fact that limited recovery is available for non-economic damages in a wrongful death case in California.

DeFina states he provided links describing acts of fraud, corruption and mistreatment of employees at the NJ Meadowlands Hospital, but he provided no such links, and this is irrelevant.

The links and articles he did provide are self-serving promotions and totally unrelated to his statements or to the Wiki content. He provides old articles (from 2006, 2007), links to unrelated websites (like Oxford Recovery Center and Oxford Hyperbaric in Troy, Michigan), and lists unrelated publications from 2008 to 2010.

Please NOTE that DeFina is an unlicensed Ph.D. masquerading as a Medical Doctor. He is not qualified to treat anyone! He was fired from the Meadowlands Hospital for numerous reasons. This is the response from Dr. Paul Fisher to DeFina’s efforts to reverse the McMath brain death determination:

“Overall, none of the current materials presented [by DeFina and the team he assembled] in the declarations refute my 12/23/13 examination and consultation findings, or those of several prior attending physicians who completed the same exams, that Jahi McMath met all criteria for brain death. None of the declarations provide evidence that Jahi McMath is not brain dead.”

Eight months have passed since DeFina's findings have been refuted with no response by DeFina! The man is a con-artist searching for free money!! ^{— Unsigned, by: SamSmith129 / talk / contribs}

Just saw this and I appreciate the laugh

I’ve worked with Dr. Defina and he is a brilliant researcher who has been producing peer-reviewed research for decades. The fact that a bunch of clueless people on the internet are obsessed enough to create a detailed yet totally non-factual smear page on him is pretty entertaining to me. For anyone actually curious about Dr. DeFina’s work, I’d direct you to check him out on Google scholar or another reputable source.

Edited to note: just saw someone using a logical fallacy above: “it’s been 8 months and he hasn’t refuted any of this again!” Of course he’s not spending his time on this site, I’m sure he has much better things to do with his time. ^{— Unsigned, by: 174.239.53.150 / talk / contribs 15:51, 5 December 2022}

I have personally had no part in this article but, especially as it is about a living person, it would be worthwhile if you point out which specific parts are incorrect. I am sure we will be happy to update it with correct information.Bob^{"Life is short and (insert adjective)"} 15:58, 5 December 2022 (UTC)