That is agood point - but the comparisons to Schiavo here are not correct. To say that because this boy 'snapped' out of it, doesn't mean Schiavo would. She was irreversibly brain damaged as shown by the autopsy. Clearly this boy didn't have the same physical evidence for his diagnosis that Terri did.
What would you consider to be physical evidence for a dx of PVS?
What autopsy? I thought Mikey had Terri cremated immediately so that there would be no autopsy.
They are not. However, in the mid-1970's or so we were doing surgery on newborns with no anesthesia, because we thought we knew that they couldn't feel anything.