Michael Schumacher: Latest Details on F1 Legend’s Recovery from Skiing Accident

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Published: March 26, 2014

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An ex-Formula One chief doctor says that due to "serious lapses in judgement," Michael Schumacher was airlifted to the wrong hospital after hitting his head in a skiing accident.

The poor judgement, which caused vital hours to be lost in the race to save the driver's life, "could, and almost certainly did, worsen the outcome in Michael's case," and he now faces a "terribly dismal prognosis."

Gary Hartstein served in the medical role from 2005 to 2012 and told The Sun (h/t Daily Mail's Allan Hall), that Schumacher should have been taken straight to a facility with brain specialists instead of a local clinic.

Hartstein says: "You do not take patients with a suspected head injury to hospitals that do not have neuro-surgical capability."

Now, as Hall learned from Hartstein, "the world is witnessing the long goodbye of motorsport's legendary figure."



Schumacher was on a low-speed ski run in the French resort of Meribel on Dec. 29, where a fall caused him to hit his head on a rock. The F1 driver was initially taken to Moutiers before then being moved to Grenoble University Hospital, where he has remained in an artificially induced coma ever since.



The former F1 medical figure maintains a medical blog, where he posted, per Allan's report:

It is possible that the staff at Grenoble feel duty-bound to NOT place any pressure on the family to transfer out, despite the terribly dismal prognosis . . . because of the clear (but unquantifiable) contribution of medical misjudgement to that prognosis.

As time goes on it becomes less and less likely that Michael will emerge to any significant extent. ...

And whereas I worried more than a bit about what was going to happen when and if really bad news got announced, I’ve realised that perhaps the lack of status updates has given us all a chance to move on a bit, to process ...
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