by APFLI | Jul 24, 2015 | Diagnosis - Brain Function / Coma / Persistant Vegetative State / Locked In Syndrome / Awakenings
[Comment: I have been privileged to know this great writer and doctor, Wes Ely. He has also published two wonderful articles in the Wall Street Journal that I have sent in the past. As a nurse, I wish that every doctor could be a doctor like Dr. Ely with great...
by APFLI | May 28, 2015 | Diagnosis - Brain Function / Coma / Persistant Vegetative State / Locked In Syndrome / Awakenings
Kate, 36, communicates through a keyboard. Scientists have shown for the first time that a person diagnosed as being in a vegetative state can communicate. In 1997, when Kate was 26, she caught an acute viral infection. It was so serious that it confined her to a...
by APFLI | May 26, 2015 | Diagnosis - Brain Function / Coma / Persistant Vegetative State / Locked In Syndrome / Awakenings
An international study finds that about forty percent of patients like Terri Schiavo who are supposedly in a persistent vegetative state are misdiagnosed and another fifty percent of them recover from their situation. The study finds the patients in question were in a...
by APFLI | May 16, 2015 | Euthanasia / Assisted Suicide - Archive
As campaigners use the “hard cases” of severely disabled people to push for legalised assisted suicide and euthanasia in Britain, Pink and McNeilly urged sufferers not to give up on life. When Kerry Pink, an interior designer, was 35 in 1997 she fell ill with an...
