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20+ years as a nurse. I took care of an 18 year old that got run over by a truck.

This teen was profoundly injured. He arrested as a result of a ruptured aorta. He was comatose with a head injury when I took care of him in ICU.

He was in the Unit for weeks, I worked at night and with giving care I noticed he started inclining his head to me just a little bit, had a tear leak out.

Over the next couple of days, I made a deliberate attempt to interact with him. Sometimes he seemed lighter and at other times deeper.

I tried to tell the MD that he was trying to come up and the MD told me that I was a nurse and inadequate to make the assessment.

Md was convinced that he was in a PVS and was going to go to a nursing home. He didn't want to see anything else.

We nurses had to take the MD to the ethics committee to force the MD to start physical therapy.

The physicians preformed opinion that would not be changed prevented him from fixing the shoulder and arm fracture, the broken back, the multiple fractures of the pelvis.

Kid woke up, Woke up in a body that was horribly disfigured and dysfunctional because of contractures to his back and an improperly healed pelvis.

Doctors are not God and neither are judges.

If you don't mind me asking, what happened to the poor kid? Did he sue? Did the doctor suffer any consequences at all?

Oh man...what a depressing story. I hope the docs were sued. This is where malpractice needs to be sued for.