February 22, 2002
How Do Doctors Decide?
Although lawyers, ethicists, and a few physicians are still debating what constitutes death,
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The Unsettled Question of Brain Death
most Western neurologists will tell you, "Brain death is death." The obvious question, then, is, How do physicians determine when someone's brain has stopped functioning?
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