AP: What if Lincoln had lived?

[Cooley Hurd]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/05/18/lincoln.survival.ap/index.html



BALTIMORE, Maryland (AP) -- Abraham Lincoln might have survived being shot if today's medical technology had existed in 1865.

Given that scenario, the question is whether Lincoln, the president who led the United States during the Civil War, would have recovered well enough to return to office, a doctor and a historian said Friday at an annual University of Maryland School of Medicine conference on the deaths of historic figures.

While the conference has traditionally re-examined the deaths of historic figures to determine if the diagnosis of the time was correct, this year's event asks if Lincoln could have been saved and what impact that would have had.

Dr. Thomas Scalea, the physician in chief at the University of Maryland's Shock Trauma Center, said brain injuries are unpredictable but Lincoln would have stood a good chance of surviving.

"I don't believe that the president had a uniformly fatal injury," said Scalea, who explained how Lincoln would have been treated at his center, the world's first dedicated trauma center.
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[deutsey]

1. I remember a high school teacher saying he would've been impeached

for suspending habeous corpus.

Of course, Bush has done it too and he hasn't yet been impeached... :evilfrown:

[Pab Sungenis]

2. That might have only been an excuse.

Lincoln's Reconstruction theories were milder than the ones Johnson put in place, and both of them were much milder than the Radical Republicans who controlled the Congress. The Radicals impeached Johnson to get him out of the way (Johnson had issued a then-record number of vetoes) but failed.

If Lincoln had tried to impose an even less restrictive Reconstruction than Johnson advocated, then the Congress would have seen the need to take him down.

[Secular Agent Man]

3. Can't someone send Frist a video of Abe's noggin

to get an expert opinion? :eyes: