Misdiagnosis of Persistent Vegetative State
Filed under: Medicine/Health Politics Law Life Issues— Different River @ 2:40 pm
This study in the British Medical Journal in 1996 found that 43% of those diagnosed as in a “persistent vegetative state” were actually not, including some who’d had that diagnosis for several year. This other study in Neurology in 1993 found that 37% were misdiagnosed.
This is not exactly new information. And the ways the articles describe people as not being in PVS (follow the links) sound like the sort of things Terri does that her detractors call “reflexes.”
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fyi: google alerts is censoring some Terri stories. Does yahoo have alerts? I know topix.net does.