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Why advances in treating those with brain injuries require advances in respecting their rights

  • Written by Joseph J. Fins, The E. William Davis, Jr., M.D. Professor of Medical Ethics and Professor of Medicine, Chief Division of Medical Ethics Weill Cornell Medicine and Solomon Center Distinguished Scholar in Medicine, Bioethics and the Law, Yale Law School, Co
imageA patient who suffered a traumatic brain injury works with a therapist.Steve Senne/AP

Several years ago a father approached me, concerned about the care his son was receiving. The son had been in a car accident that left him with severe brain injury. He was placed in a nursing home, and his dad stopped by regularly to check in on him. The father...

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