Bump and thanks to cgk and Fair Opinion for pinging me to the above thread by Eternal Vigilance.
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Headline-grabbing news stories involving severely brain-damaged patients such as Terri Schiavo and Terry Wallis aren't doing much to clear up the public's confusion surrounding brain injury and the likelihood that specific patients will recover, say experts at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center.
But more and better research on the issue -- especially a nationwide, epidemiological study on just how and where severely brain-injured patients are being cared for -- could help, according to a commentary written by NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell physician-scientists and published recently in Neurology, the journal of the American Academy of Neurology. The paper reports on an Institutes of Medicine (IOM) exploratory meeting on disorders of consciousness.
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