Opinion: The term “vegetative state” writes off patients as “not even minimally conscious” when medicine is not in a position to make that diagnosis. "The fact that you think a patient may be wholly unconscious is never a sufficient reason to withhold pain relief," writes Jonathan Birch. https://trib.al/veA3152
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