The answer she found ultimately gets to the heart of how anesthesia might work at all —a process that is still surprisingly mysterious.
@sarahzhang.bsky.socialSarah Zhang
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eukaryote, also a staff writer at the atlantic
@sarahzhang.bsky.social@sarahzhang.bsky.socialEarlier this year, I heard about several kids who died after anesthesia—and others who suffered catastrophic brain damage. I wrote about one mother, and her quest to figure out what happened to her son.
@sarahzhang.bsky.socialI spent the past several months with the family of one patient in the study, Ian, who was injured in a car crash in 1986. His mother has never stopped believing he could understand her.
Today in @theatlantic.com, Ian's story:
theatlantic.comThe Mother Who Never Stopped Believing Her Son Was Still ThereFor decades, Eve Baer remained convinced that her son, unresponsive after a severe brain injury, was still conscious. Science eventually proved her right.