Posted on 22 November 2009. Tags: assisted suicide, Belgium, books, Brain, car crash, Carrie Coons, case, coma, Coma Science Group, coma tests, computer, conscious, consciousness, Department of Neurology at Liege University Hospital, Doctors, Dr. Steven Laureys, euthanasia, experts, eye responses, false comas, family, friends, Germany, Glasgow Coma Scale, hi-tech scans, Hillsborough disaster, life support, medical advances, misdiagnosed, motor responses, neurological expert, New York, paralyzed, Patient, re-evaluation, right-to-die debate, Rom Houben, scientific paper, severe traumatic brain injury, therapy, Tony Bland, UK, United Kingdom, University of Liege, vegatative state, verbal responses, Zolder
A man thought by doctors to be in a vegetative state for 23 years was actually conscious the whole time, it was revealed last night.
Student Rom Houben was misdiagnosed after a car crash left him totally paralysed.
He had no way of letting experts, family or friends know he could hear every word they said. Read the full story
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