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Topic	Is that surgeon still going to do that head transplant?
Soviet_Poland 06/07/17 2:57:13 AM #3:	I really, really doubt it. For one, transecting the spinal cord like that will leave the patient at best a ventilator-dependent quadriplegic. That's actually a worse outcome than what the current "volunteer patient" is going through. Overwhelmingly likely though, they just die on the table. It wouldn't pass an ethics committee for a million years. It's bad science and bad medicine. --- "He has two neurons held together by a spirochete." <cite>Soviet_Poland posted [p:880572881] in Is that su... [t:75431031]...</cite> <quote>I really, really doubt it. For one, transecting the spinal cord like that will leave the patient at best a ventilator-dependent quadriplegic. That's actually a worse outcome than what the current "volunteer patient" is going through. Overwhelmingly likely though, they just die on the table. It wouldn't pass an ethics committee for a million years. It's bad science and bad medicine. --- "He has two neurons held together by a spirochete."</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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