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Thanks for all the pings and links. I hope that rehabbing "PVS" patients becomes the "new rage", replacing the "old rage" of starving them.

The scientific breakthroughs come from the doctors who value the lives of their patients.

Doctors who kill contribute little, if nothing, to humanity.

160 posted on 09/09/2006 6:03:09 AM PDT by syriacus (George Washington was no dummy. He prayed to THE LORD.)

>> I hope that rehabbing "PVS" patients becomes the "new rage"

Ooh, wouldn't that be great. And y'know, it just might happen. One week we have news of a drug that "wakes" the comatose. The next week word of a man whose brain rewired itself after 22 years. The next week a demonstration that a PVS patient (here) has both will and consciousness, despite the inability to communicate.

Of course we've had many another story over the years about comatose patients -- often at risk of being dehydrated / starved to death -- who knew EVERYTHING that was going on around them but couldn't so much as move a muscle to say so. And a lot more stories from medically unconscious patients who were "out of body" and watched the surgery being performed on them and could relate the details later.

162 posted on 09/09/2006 7:01:22 AM PDT by T'wit (It is not possible to "go too far" criticizing liberals. No matter what you say, they're worse.)

179 posted on 09/10/2006 5:27:02 AM PDT by Lesforlife ("For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb . . ." Psalm 139:13)

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