June 15, 20179 yr Warmbier requires no respiratory assistance. Has profound weakness in arm/leg muscles. Has no conscious awareness at this point. MRI shows extensive loss of brain matter. What the hell did they do to him?!?! Edited June 15, 20179 yr by lawildcat
June 15, 20179 yr It's an utterly alien and fascinating place. Nothing else like it in the world, I would love to visit. For me: It's an utterly alien and fascinating place. Nothing else like it in the world, I would love to visit. But I won't.
June 15, 20179 yr For me: It's an utterly alien and fascinating place. Nothing else like it in the world, I would love to visit. But I won't. Oh same here, I would definitely be the guy who ended up in prison.
June 16, 20179 yr Warmbier requires no respiratory assistance. Has profound weakness in arm/leg muscles. Has no conscious awareness at this point. MRI shows extensive loss of brain matter. What the hell did they do to him?!?! We need one of our medical professionals to provide some education to the layman group.
June 16, 20179 yr His entire trial took 1 hour. Guilty until found innocent. I'm not sure if we'll ever know the story, and that is OK, I respect their privacy, but I have a feeling his emotions got the best of him and the guards didn't take it too kindly.
June 16, 20179 yr We need one of our medical professionals to provide some education to the layman group. What do you mean specifically?
June 16, 20179 yr We need one of our medical professionals to provide some education to the layman group. Actually, reports today say loss of brain tissue, not matter. I have no idea what difference that makes though.
June 16, 20179 yr We need one of our medical professionals to provide some education to the layman group. My wife was talking about this last night. She's a pediatric neurology resident right now. Loss of brain matter is generally a result of atrophy...or essentially the result of not being used. Kind of like how muscle mass decreases when you don't use that muscle group. It can be caused by a number of things...traumatic brain injury, stroke, infection, several different diseases, and even drug use.
June 16, 20179 yr In the old days they would have said he's in a vegetative state. But they don't say that now due to ethics.
June 16, 20179 yr In the old days they would have said he's in a vegetative state. But they don't say that now due to ethics. Correct. "Unresponsive wakefulness" has replaced "persistent vegetative state" as the preferred nomenclature.
June 16, 20179 yr Correct. "Unresponsive wakefulness" has replaced "persistent vegetative state" as the preferred nomenclature. But every article follows up "unresponsive wakefulness" with "it used to be called vegetative state."
June 16, 20179 yr But every article follows up "unresponsive wakefulness" with "it used to be called vegetative state." Ha...I hadn't seen that.
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