Should Dehydration Be the Default Decision for PVS? | The Center for Bioethics and Culture: What about the people who unexpectedly wake up? Constable says most of these weren’t truly PVS — even though some had been so diagnosed. (In fact, studies show that PVS is misdiagnosed about 40% of the time.)
But that doesn’t matter because [she says] “the new life gained” by the “miracle patient” is “far less likely to resemble what he lost than to be some state of middle consciousness;” a life “quite possibly, worse than non-existence.” Moreover, the potential benefit of living to be a miracle patient “is not sufficient to trump the public interest in allocating resources to patients more likely to benefit.” Original article
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