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S1996E14: Living Death

Horizon · Season 1996
Aired 25 Nov 1996 at 8:00pm (UTC)
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Synopsis

Looks at new treatments for patients in a persistent vegetative state. Focuses on the case of Geoffrey Wildsmith who was misdiagnosed as being PVS. He had awoken from his coma but was totally paralysed and unable to communicate. After two years he was transferred and it was found he could communicate by using a buzzer connected to a highly sensitive pressure-switch.

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