Declaring a patient dead based on the irreversible loss of all clinical brain function has been controversial since it was first proposed 50 years ago by a committee at Harvard Medical School. At the time, new resuscitative technology was able to keep the "hopelessly unconscious patient" alive,...
So the fact that a brain-dead individual wakes up means he was never dead to begin with. Was Trenton Brain-Dead? Now, this implies one of two things: Either Trenton was brain-dead but brain death isn’t human death, and brain tissue can regenerate itself even when its entire living ...
Gloria Cruz: http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/brain-dead-woman-recovers-after-husband-refuses-to-withdraw-life-support/,May 2011 Madeleine Gauron: http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/brain-dead-quebec-woman-wakes-up-after-family-refuses-organ-donation,July 2011 ...
the atmosphere was impeccable, and I am a sucker for horror films that say, very clearly, “This is the premise. Deal with it.” A woman wakes up with an odd pain in her leg that makes her drag her foot. Another woman sees her on the street and tells her, “There’s an ...
Later, Cristian wakes up in the middle of the night, convinced that he hears strange noises coming from the woods around the house. Could this just be just the influence of Carlos’s story on an impressionable young boy? Or is something stirring? Cristian and July begin their investigation ...
(Giles/Faith, PG for language) Instead of using the device on Buffy when she wakes up, what if the Mayor intended Faith to use it on Giles?Pari Passau (with Equal Step) (Giles/Buffy, PG) Before the Cruciamentum there was the bond between Watcher and Slayer.also posted to katekat on...
There are intriguing and often poignant encounters with patients such as Jack, a World War II vet with a knack for cheating death, and Fred, a salesman who wakes up from surgery with new skills. These patient interactions help him understand the human aspect of the surgical profession. ...
“It’s a game changer for neurologists,” he says. “Up until this point, all we had to look at brain-wave activity in a noninvasive way was to put electrodes on people’s scalps.” MEG, in contrast, can map the whole brain’s activity, showing how areas associated with emotion an...
the other weekends and one evening during the week. Mom is very fond of the day aide; the evening/weekend CNA, not so much. Every evening she asks at least five times, “Who is coming tomorrow? What time?” Each time, the answer is the same. When she wakes up in the morning, it...
It’s as though someone scatters seed on the ground, then sleeps and wakes night and day. The seed sprouts and grows, but the farmer doesn’t know how. The earth produces crops all by itself, first the stalk, then the head, then the full head of grain. Whenever the crop is ready,...