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Dad Rescues 'Brain Dead' Son from Doctors Wishing to Harvest His Organs—Boy Recovers CompletelyToday the boy is reportedly 21 and studying at a university. (Leicester, England)—According to the Daily Mail newspaper, a young British man owes his life to an insistent father who would not allow his son's organs to be removed from his body, despite assurances from four doctors that his son could not recover from the wounds he had suffered in a recent car accident.
Although a team of four physicians insisted that his son was "brain-dead" following the wreck, Thorpe's father enlisted the help of a general practitioner and a neurologist, who demonstrated that his son still had brain wave activity. The doctors agreed to bring him out of the coma, and five weeks later Thorpe left the hospital, having almost completely recovered. Today, the 21-year-old with "brain damage" is studying accounting at a local university. "My impression is maybe the hospital [wasn't] very happy that my father wanted a second opinion," he told the Mail. Read this entire article at the LSN link provided.
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The Mail reports that Stephen Thorpe, then 17, was placed in a medically-induced coma following a multi-car pileup that had already taken the life of his friend Matthew, who was driving the vehicle. (Photo: Daily Mail)
