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Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine 11/2014

01-11-2014 | Healing Arts

Up for Yes

Author: Alessandra Colaianni, B.A.

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 11/2014

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The transfer note was a tragedy in bullet points. He was a teenager, he had two sisters, he’d been a swimmer, he lived near my childhood home; he had suffered a massive pontine stroke while surgeons repaired an unexplainable aneurysm in his brain. For the last two years, he had been completely conscious but completely paralyzed, able to communicate only by blinking. He came to the rehabilitation center at our hospital to coax back as much movement into his motionless limbs as he could. “A classic case of locked-in syndrome,” said my attending—“a real learning opportunity.” …
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Title
Up for Yes
Author
Alessandra Colaianni, B.A.
Publication date
01-11-2014
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 11/2014
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-014-2869-y

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