For the nth time, there is no trust issue, because neither doctor has ventured an hypothesis for what happened. Everyone here is just assuming the usual supernatural NDE explanation and then hollering at me for making other suggestions. If you would like to make no assumptions whatsoever, then we cannot reach even a tentative conclusion about what happened.
~~ Paul
But I was not talking about the reports from the two doctors, of whom you say that you trust them. My problem with you is your overall distrust of people. And that bothers me (and others) greatly.
Anyway, your distrust was in some sense helpful, because we contacted again Dr Cattaneo, the cardio surgeon who assisted Dr Lloyd Rudy, and saw it all happen as described in our paper. To our specific question he responded that
as was normally the case, the tapes were removed from the patient's eyes before he was being wheeled out to the ICU . Yet, it was absolutely out of the question that due to that removal the patient could see immediately. He was so loaded up with anaesthetics and sedatives that he remained deeply unconscious for quite some time. So your contention that he could have seen the yellow notes by normal means, does not hold.
But, I have no illusion as regards your most likely response to this: "how do we know that this Dr Cattaneo speaks the truth so many years after it happened?" That would be strange, by the way, because you had just said,
for the nth time, that there is no trust issue...
Besides, skeptics have always that particular way out: "it happened too long ago, therefore...."
But, even if it did not happen too long ago, then they will have another trick on their sleeves to explain away a case that they don't like. Because that type of skeptics, and it seems to me you are one of them, Paul, does NOT want to accept reality other than their own.