Paralysed Belgian misdiagnosed as in coma for 23 years
This is quite frightening and confirms something I have long believed... basically that the brain is more subtle and complex than what even the most up-to-date science can say about it. How many people in this situation have had life support turned off? *********************** Paralysed Belgian misdiagnosed as in coma for 23 years Rom Houben now uses a special keyboard to communicate A Belgian man who doctors thought was in a coma for 23 years was conscious all along, it has been revealed. Medical staff believed Rom Houben had sunk irretrievably into a coma after he was injured in a car crash in 1983. A doctor at Belgium's University of Liege who discovered that Mr Houben had been misdiagnosed said his case was not an isolated one. "I was shouting, but no-one could hear me," Mr Houben, now 46, was quoted as saying by a German magazine. According to Der Spiegel, Mr Houben, who can now communicate by using a special keyboard, has described how his body did ...