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Después de que su esposa estuvo en la UCI durante 27 días, los médicos le preguntaron a Steve Simmons si quería desconectarla del artefacto que la mantenía con vida.
After his wife had been in the ICU for 27 days, doctors asked Steve Simmons: Did he want to disconnect her from the life-sustaining treatment?
Omar Salgado defied the odds in Room 20. But his is not a story about a miracle — it’s a story about medicine’s inability to accurately diagnose consciousness.
Descubrir su nombre resultó ser la parte fácil. La parte difícil fue navegar por las líneas borrosas que separan la conciencia de la inconsciencia - y averiguar si su sonrisa era realmente una sonrisa.
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Finding out his name turned out to be the easy part. The tough part was navigating the blurred lines that separate consciousness from unconsciousness — and figuring out whether his smile was really a smile.
