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View from patient inside the hospice
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Ed Emerson, 71, has been been watching the protests and media activity at Woodside hospice from the inside — as a patient.
Emerson, who rolled out on to the ground today on an electric scooter, said he has spent a month in the room across the hall from Terri Schiavo.
“All I saw was people coming and going from the young lady’s room. I saw the police officers,” he said.
Emerson praised the Pinellas Park, Fla., hospice and its staff and said his heart and lung condition had improved at the facility. A month ago, he moved into a small apartment in a separate section of the hospice.
He said he had been one of the “four musketeers” with three other patients, but the other three have died, two in the last three weeks since protesters began gathering outside.
Emerson said patients’ visitors have no trouble getting past police barricades as long as they are on approved lists.
Of the Schiavo case, he said, “I don’t have an opinion. It’s up to the judges.”
Gayle White
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