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Why brain dead means really dead

most of those 2 million sites appear to be the noise machine. The first link was a story about incompetence, not the failure of EEG and other diagnostic tests being wrong, in the first link an EEG would not have even been required. The second link was out right miracle which is something different. These miracle recoveries and other sensationlist stories, as far as I can tell from the lit search, are very rare, and very poorly documented, and most of all, inadequately diagnosed. If you are in a hospital, you are warm and not in a drug induced state of somesort and after a reasonable attempt at diagnosis, the Doctors say you are dead, you're dead. If you suddenly wake up and jog to the cafeteria the doctors were charting on the wrong patient or something. The little girl in the OP, I assure you, is brain dead.
https://www.google.com/#q=man+declared+brain+dead+wakes+up

That's a google search of numerous cases where that has happened. 100+ cases.

2.15 million results on the issue to me exact.

Here is a good one:

Student Declared Brain Dead Miraculously Wakes Up - Miracles Video

4 doctors declared him^^ brain dead.
 
most of those 2 million sites appear to be the noise machine. The first link was a story about incompetence, not the failure of EEG and other diagnostic tests being wrong, in the first link an EEG would not have even been required. The second link was out right miracle which is something different. These miracle recoveries and other sensationlist stories, as far as I can tell from the lit search, are very rare, and very poorly documented, and most of all, inadequately diagnosed. If you are in a hospital, you are warm and not in a drug induced state of somesort and after a reasonable attempt at diagnosis, the Doctors say you are dead, you're dead. If you suddenly wake up and jog to the cafeteria the doctors were charting on the wrong patient or something. The little girl in the OP, I assure you, is brain dead.

Sorry, can't agree with you here. You're reading what you want the articles to "appear" to you to believe.

Sorry, don't mean to scare you but physicians aren't as "great" as you may would like to believe. That's why it's always good to get a second opinion with serious medical conditions.
 
I work in the field, Mr Nick. But thanks for the sage advice. Try not to mix up miracles and incompetence with medical science.
Sorry, can't agree with you here. You're reading what you want the articles to "appear" to you to believe.

Sorry, don't mean to scare you but physicians aren't as "great" as you may would like to believe. That's why it's always good to get a second opinion with serious medical conditions.
 
I work in the field, Mr Nick. But thanks for the sage advice. Try not to mix up miracles and incompetence with medical science.

Oh so you believe in miracles? just not a miracle here?
 
https://www.google.com/#q=man+declared+brain+dead+wakes+up

That's a google search of numerous cases where that has happened. 100+ cases.

2.15 million results on the issue to me exact.

Here is a good one:

Student Declared Brain Dead Miraculously Wakes Up - Miracles Video

4 doctors declared him^^ brain dead.

The cases that I have read about have all involved failure to follow nationally recognized protocols. Was there even a hint of failure to do so on the part of Childrens Hospital?

What most folks don't understand is that there is SIGNIFICANT criteria to even be eligible to be tested. A lot of the problems with misdiagnosis start there. No issue with misdiagnosis exists in this case (that I am aware of).
 
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