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Pill awakes patients from Permanent Vegetative State
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May 24, 2006 @ 3:47pmby James S
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9 ... ients.html
This is awesome. We don't need DNRs anymore, we can just wake the person up with this pill and ask them if they want to go on living in their "permanent" vegetative state!
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May 24, 2006 @ 7:40pmby refractor
I need a large box for my colleagues.
Re: Pill awakes patients from Permanent Vegetative State
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May 25, 2006 @ 2:57amby Maf54
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May 26, 2006 @ 4:59pmby chuck
Re: Pill awakes patients from Permanent Vegetative State
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May 26, 2006 @ 7:24pmby James S
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May 28, 2006 @ 2:41amby Maf54
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May 28, 2006 @ 3:18amby James S
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May 28, 2006 @ 5:38amby damian
Did you actually read the article? It wakes up people who were thought to be in PVS, not those who actually are. Permanent brain damage is a bitch and it's not likely that a pill will ever be able to help that.
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May 28, 2006 @ 5:56amby Maf54
I'm not a medical doctor but it seems to me that if you don't have 3/4 of your brain than its not coming back. You are a vegetable whether your eyes are open and you drool on yourself of you are permanently asleep.
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May 28, 2006 @ 6:20pmby James S
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May 28, 2006 @ 7:25pmby Maf54
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May 28, 2006 @ 8:42pmby RedruM
Well I've heard of someone getting shot in the head and having to remove half of their brain, yet the person still manages to live life normally with half a brain.
I somehow believe in that 10% theory.
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May 28, 2006 @ 10:18pmby sandmann
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May 28, 2006 @ 10:27pmby James S
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May 28, 2006 @ 11:05pmby Maf54