{"title":"Portrayal Of Persistent Vegetative States In The Media","authors":"Sh Foyaca","doi":"10.5580/1c8c","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The New York Times published a plot description of the movie “In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan.” It can be read: “After a serious accident, New Jersey woman Karen Ann Quinlan lapses into an irreversible coma. Only a complicated and expensive life-support system forestalls Karen's inevitable death; otherwise, she is brain dead and her prognosis is hopeless.” [3] Hence, in this portrayal terms like “irreversible coma”, “brain dead”, “prognosis is hopeless”, are misunderstood.","PeriodicalId":232166,"journal":{"name":"The Internet Journal of Neurology","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2009-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Internet Journal of Neurology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5580/1c8c","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The New York Times published a plot description of the movie “In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan.” It can be read: “After a serious accident, New Jersey woman Karen Ann Quinlan lapses into an irreversible coma. Only a complicated and expensive life-support system forestalls Karen's inevitable death; otherwise, she is brain dead and her prognosis is hopeless.” [3] Hence, in this portrayal terms like “irreversible coma”, “brain dead”, “prognosis is hopeless”, are misunderstood.