Maryland: Using a “PVS” Diagnosis to justify Organ Harvesting Without Consent
…nd children.” Medical Aspects of the Persistent Vegetative State, The Multi-Society Task Force on PVS, N Engl J Med 1994; 330:1499-1508, May 26, 1994. Increasingly, however, families are counseled to withdraw life support before such a waiting period has passed. As discussed by experts in the New York Times Magazine article cited above: “Once a patient progresses to minimal consciousness, we can’t predict what’s going to happen,” says Dr. Joseph J…