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Re:Thousands of coma patients may be conscious by everybodyknows on Friday December 31, 2021 @02:47PM (#29751818)
> no one knows exactly how many vegetative-state patients there are in the world (in the United States, it has been estimated that there are between 15,000 and 40,000)

Last I read, Medicare would pay for this -- perhaps at the request of relatives in denial? And so there's a "ventilator farm" industry, one that maintains a very low public profile.

Anyone with current inside knowledge here to clue in the rest of us?

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Re:Thousands of coma patients may be conscious by arthem on Friday December 31, 2021 @03:06PM (#29752019)
> And so there's a "ventilator farm" industry, one that maintains a very low public profile.

This sounds like an interesting rabbit hole to go down. Unfortuantely I could not find any websites/articles on this topic. Do you have any links?

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Re:Thousands of coma patients may be conscious by robbiep on Friday December 31, 2021 @11:07PM (#29755420)
Louis Theroux has a documentary on it - Edge of Life I believe it is called (although Google says that’s about cedars Sinai so possibly not, but there is an episode he does that predominantly features room after room of ventilated patients)
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