http://www.outbursts.org/2006/09/08/what-do-you-mean-by-brain-dead/ Apologia kai Polemikos Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:46:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 http://www.outbursts.org/2006/09/08/what-do-you-mean-by-brain-dead/#comment-17671 Occasional Outbursts » Not-so-persistent vegetative state Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:03:47 +0000 http://www.outbursts.org/2006/09/08/what-do-you-mean-by-brain-dead/#comment-17671 <p>[...] See also What do you mean by brain-dead? from earlier this month. [...]</p> […] See also What do you mean by brain-dead? from earlier this month. […]

]]> http://www.outbursts.org/2006/09/08/what-do-you-mean-by-brain-dead/#comment-17307 A bit to the left Sat, 09 Sep 2006 19:23:17 +0000 http://www.outbursts.org/2006/09/08/what-do-you-mean-by-brain-dead/#comment-17307 <p>I heard this story on NPR and it caught my interest too. NPR also interviewed a doctor who often provides "expert testimony" to courts to determine if people who are in a "vegetative state" (I hate that term) should be removed from life support. The reporter asked him if this new finding would have any effect on his next testimony and he said he would recommend this type of scan be done.</p> I heard this story on NPR and it caught my interest too. NPR also interviewed a doctor who often provides “expert testimony” to courts to determine if people who are in a “vegetative state” (I hate that term) should be removed from life support. The reporter asked him if this new finding would have any effect on his next testimony and he said he would recommend this type of scan be done.

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