F1 doctor say Michael Schumacher is unlikely to ever fully recover despite “triumphal claims”

Just a day after former F1 champion Michael Schumacher was said to have emerged from his coma, a former Formula One doctor has criticized the announcement that Michael Schumacher’s is still unlikely ever to make a full recovery.

Dr. Grey Hartstein attacked Schumacher’s management over what he considers ‘triumphal’ claims, saying it was ‘not news,’ and branding the announcement ‘highly cynical’ and ‘almost certainly false’.

Schumacher was yesterday transferred from Grenoble University Hospital in France, to a rehabilitation clinic in the Swiss city of Lausanne, where he is said to be responding to voices – particularly that of his wife Corinna.

Yesterday Germany’s Bild newspaper reported that Schumacher cannot speak but is able to breathe without assistance for short periods and ‘responded’ to his wife’s voice.

However doctors have dismissed reports about him not being in a coma as ‘nothing new’

‘We are told, with what appears to be a bit of triumphal air, that Michael is no longer in a coma,’ wrote Dr Hartstein in his blog.

‘This is not news. I cannot help but think that this is a highly cynical use of language, using the truth convey an impression that is almost certainly false’

Hartstein has repeatedly criticized the virtual news blackout over Schumacher’s condition over the past five and a-half months, claiming that the world was witnessing ‘the long goodbye’ of the seven times World F1 champion.

I have said it before and I will say it again, I hope he recovers even if I fear the worse. A full recovery is certainly out of it, we can only hope for the best at this time.