Category: consciousness

On September 16, ABC News in Oakland, California reported on a hospital’s threat to remove breathing support from six-month-old Kingston Holmes. The infant needed a ventilator due to a brain injury following a cardiac arrest at home. The first thing I ask when I read a story like that is when did the cardiac arrest […]

This past week, news sources in Europe and the US have been telling the story of  Richard Rudd, who was left with spinal cord injuries and in an apparent coma after a motorcycle accident.  As medical staff and family prepared to disconnect Mr. Rudd’s ventilator, a final examination by one of his physicians held open […]