It's amazing what doctors like Egner, who try to save people, rather than kill them, can accomplish. Don't look to the pro-euthanasia crowd for advances in medicine.
Best Doctors 2005: One Lucky Unlucky Boy
Two-year-old boy playing in his driveway. Father accidentally runs over him while backing up his truck. Boy’s skull crushed; he arrives at the hospital near brain death. [snip]“When I first saw Bobby, his pupils were dilated,” says Stony Brook pediatric neurosurgeon Michael Egnor. ...extremely close to brain death.”
... Egnor told Kim and Bob that he would need to remove almost the entire top of Bobby’s skull, ... Four large pieces of his skull were removed, then stored under skin on his abdomen to keep them viable for reattachment
The surgical team then inserted a catheter into Bobby’s brain... Bobby was placed in a medically induced coma ...
Bobby was gradually taken out of the coma after a week, and his recovery has been remarkable. He has a slight vision problem in one eye, but doctors think that it may improve with age. The scarring on Bobby’s reattached skull is disappearing as his hair grows back in, and he recently returned to day care. “The chance of Bobby having serious long-term complications is very small,” says Egnor. “His brain scan looks great, and neurologically he’s doing very well. He’s a normal kid—walking around and playing. If anything, his mom says he’s more focused now than he was before the accident.”
It's amazing what doctors like Egner, who try to save people, rather than kill them, can accomplish. Don't look to the pro-euthanasia crowd for advances in medicine.
You are so right and a good point about where the advances in medicine come from and where they do not, syriacus.
The article was a great read - encouraging. Thanks.