MEDICINE: Coma arousal therapy: Dr Ted Freeman’s treatment for PVS patients*

Relatives and friends of people in a coma – or, as it is sometimes called, a persistent vegetative state (PVS) – hope that at some time their loved one will recover.However, according to one Australian doctor, Dr E.A. (Ted) Freeman, there are techniques that can help coma patients to recover fully or partially.In an interview with the ABC Radio National program, All in the Mind (July 24), Dr Freeman described how he himself had once been in a coma while working as a mission doctor in Vanuatu aft…

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