Terri Schiavo-Type Patients May Feel Pain
 | | March 1, 2013 (Wesley J. Smith/NRO) – “Persistent vegetative state” is the only medical diagnosis I know of that contains a pejorative. No human being is a carrot. And the more we learn about these persistently unconscious patients, the more we seem to be discovering that they may not be “gone” after all. Now, a study shows that they may experience pain. From the New Scientist story: |
“IT IS a nightmare situation. A person diagnosed as being in a vegetative state has an operation without anesthetic because they cannot feel pain. Except, maybe they can.”
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