If the patient survived, the physician assessed neurological function using the Glasgow-Pittsburgh cerebral performance category score: 1 (good), 2 (moderately disabled), 3 (severely disabled), 4 (vegetative state), or 5 (dead).
Each of those physicians survived.
However, because only a minority of patients survived the operation, physicians undertook tracheotomy only as a last resort, on patients who were nearly dead.
After study closure, measurement of target lesions was obtained from the scans performed by the treating physicians in the surviving patients.
None of the surviving reports written by the workhouse physicians make any mention of the disease and there are strong reasons to believe it had been misdiagnosed.
(His oldest brother, Nicholas, died in 1995, after a long period of drug addiction; his surviving brother, George, is an emergency-room physician in North Carolina).
Only in less than 10%% of patients surviving ICU there was major disagreement between a physician's prediction and the observed long-term outcome.
Advocacy group Physicians for Human Rights-Israel said al-Qiq had broken medical records, surviving longer without food than any other hunger striker on record.
If not for the rhythm disturbance, Mr. Russert would have had a far greater chance of surviving his heart attack, said Dr. Miller, who was not one of his physicians.
Who in their right mind would write a paper putting his father, a physician, down for wanting to enjoy his life, after surviving serious illness.
