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• Brain Scan Finds Man Was Not in a Coma—23 Years Later [Neuroscience]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 892
  Rom Houben has been trapped in a series of worst nightmares, including trying for 23 years to alert those around him that he was not in a coma. A new report suggests hes not alone in his experience....
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• Brain Scan Finds Man Was Not in a Coma—23 Years Later [Neuroscience]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 542
      Rom Houben has been trapped in a series of worst nightmares, including trying for 23 years to alert those around him that he was not in a coma. A new report suggests he’s not alone in his experience. In 1983, Belgian engineering student and martial arts enthusiast Houben, then 20, was in a car accident that ...
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• Brain scan finds man was not in a coma--23 years later

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 167
  State-of-the-art brain scan finds Belgian man spent 23 years trying to tell those around him he was not, in fact, in a coma--leading some to question current methods of analyzing coma patients.
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• Man trapped in 23-year ‘coma’ was conscious all along

  
  osmoothie — Authority: 443
  Mail Online , “ ‘I screamed, but there was nothing to hear’: Man trapped in 23-year ‘coma’ reveals horror of being unable to tell doctors he was conscious ” by Allan Hall Mr Houben said: ‘I shall never forget the day when they discovered what was truly wrong with me – it was my second birth. A ...
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• Misdiagnosed With Coma, Belgian Man Communicates After 23 Years

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 912
  In an interview with Der Spiegel magazine, the man recalled the aftermath of a car accident that paralyzed him and the realization that no one understood that he was fully conscious.
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• Horrifying.

  
  LyfLines — Authority: 139
  Just horrifying : A car crash victim diagnosed as being in a coma for the past 23 years has been conscious the whole time. Rom Houben was paralysed but had no way of letting doctors know that he could hear every word they were saying. I screamed, but there was nothing to hear, said Mr Houben, now 46, who doctors ...
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• Paralysed Man Misdiagnosed as in Coma for 23 Years

  
  Frank151 — Authority: 432
  A Belgian man who doctors thought was in a coma for 23 years was conscious all along, it has been revealed. "I was shouting, but no-one could hear me," Mr Houben, now 46, was quoted as saying by a German magazine. According to Der Spiegel, Mr Houben, who can now communicate by using a special keyboard, has described ...
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• Man trapped in 23-year coma reveals horror of being unable to tell doctors he was conscious

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 173
  A car crash victim has spoken of the horror he endured for 23 years after he was misdiagnosed as being in a coma when he was conscious the whole time.Rom Houben, trapped in his paralysed body after a car crash, described his real-life nightmare as he screamed to doctors that he could hear them - but could make no ...
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• Settled science [Darleen Click]

  
  protein wisdom — Authority: 142
  It has become quite evident that the case for Anthropogenic Global Warming transmogrified from science to ideology and politics quite a while ago. So, it may appear, for what constitutes “persistent vegetative state” A man thought by doctors to be in a vegetative … [ visit site to read more ]
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• Rom Houben: Coma Misdiagnosed

  
  Right TV — Authority: 142
  This is an incredible and at the same time horrifying story of a man trapped in a misdiagnosed coma for 23 years when he was conscious the entire time. Rom Houben was trapped in his paralyzed body after a car crash and thought to be in a coma but was awake and aware the whole entire time! Rom Houben, now 46, states: ...
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• Patient trapped in a 23-year ‘coma’ was conscious all along

  
  ProCPR Blog — Authority: 107
  This is something that will likely cause shock waves in the healthcare industry.  It’s likely to create scandal and will bring to mind cases where people were taken off of life-support, thinking that someone is in a coma when they actually could be completely conscious. A man thought by doctors to be in a ...
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• Patient rescued from 23 years in ‘coma’ was conscious all through (Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  London, Nov 23 (IANS) A leading European neurologist has said many cases of brain injuries around the world are wrongly diagnosed as ‘coma’ after helping rescue a patient who was conscious all through the 23 years he was thought to be in coma.Steven Laureys, head of the Coma Science Group and Department of ...
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• The Perfect (and Stretchy) Outfits For Your Thanksgiving Dinner

  
  College Candy — Authority: 645
  Dont let your skinny jeans stop you from eating it all (twice) on Thanksgiving! The two things I love most about fall are the food and the fashion, which means Thanksgiving is a major jackpot. I get to dress up all cute and stuff my face with turkey. It’s wonderful…for the first ten minutes. Then my stomach ...
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• Man Conscious Throughout 23-Year Coma

  
  Popular Fidelity — Authority: 547
  Rom Houben was given up for dead.  After a horrific car crash in 1983, he sank into a coma.  Since then, every time he’s been administered the Glasgow Coma Scale, he’s been graded as brain-dead.  However, that wasn’t the case.  Rom Houben was awake in his coma for 23 years , completely paralyzed but totally ...
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• word fast- day 2

  
  Spirit Cloth — Authority: 420
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• Astounding case of Rom Houben: 23 years in ‘coma’, but conscious all along!

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  London, Nov 23 (IANS) A leading European neurologist has said many cases of brain injury around the world are wrongly diagnosed as ‘coma’ after discovering that a car-crash victim thought to have been in coma for the past 23 years was conscious all the time.Steven Laureys, head of the Coma Science Group and ...
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• A Belgian man diagnosed as being in a coma for 23 years was actually conscious the whole time.

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 751
  "I shall never forget the day when they discovered what was truly wrong with me – it was my second birth. Rom Houbens was simply paralysed and had no way to let doctors caring for him what he was suffering.Only the re-evaluation of his case at the University of Liege brought to light that Houben was only paralysed ...
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• Man Actually Conscious Throughout Two Decades of "Coma"

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 788
  Twenty three years ago, a car crash left Rom Houben totally paralyzed. Doctors gave him a battery of tests and concluded that he was in a vegetative state or a coma. Except that they were wrong: he was conscious the whole time but unable to tell anyone about it. ‘I screamed, but there was nothing to hear,’ said ...
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• One divorce cake coming right up!

  
  The Fine Art of Eccentricity — Authority: 134
  Britain’s new Internet law : As bad as everyone’s been saying, and worse.  Much, much worse. A little climate change dust up ! I don’t mean to alarm you, but there’s a hole in the Moon .  Seriously, a freaking hole in the MOOOON! The 20 best gadgets of the last decade. Imagine, if you will, that ...
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