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> 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
by everybodyknows 5y ago
> 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?
- arthem 5y ago> 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?
- robbiep 5y agoLouis 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)