Should There Be Tougher Brain Death Standards?
This new article in Medscape does a superb job at describing some open issues and debates concerning the status of brain death.
It was a pleasure to participate with other far more distinguished interviewees like James Bernat.
Professor Pope correctly concluded in the article :
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