Thank you for this enlightening, descriptive, and frank account. I
once had a patient who was locked in, and I wondered how he could bear his
plight. I also thank the editors for not censoring some of the bluntest
phrases; most US journals and newspapers would puritanically eschew such
terms, even though they accurately capture the writer's true meaning.
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Thank you
Thank you for this enlightening, descriptive, and frank account. I
once had a patient who was locked in, and I wondered how he could bear his
plight. I also thank the editors for not censoring some of the bluntest
phrases; most US journals and newspapers would puritanically eschew such
terms, even though they accurately capture the writer's true meaning.
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