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To the Editor: Childs and Mercer's report (Jan. 4 issue)¹ of a young woman's emergence from what had been deemed a permanent vegetative state contains a clear description of the treatment and its progression. What is missing, despite some description of the patient's affect, are the details of the patient's relationships with others and consideration of their possible impact on her affect and on the course of her improvement. We are told that the patient's mother "strenuously opposed any suggestion that the state was permanent" and "delighted in each small improvement her daughter made." Sometime between 17 and 24 months . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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