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The Accad and Koka Report - Michel Accad and Anish Koka 21st October 2020
Ep. 151 Brain Death: Challenges and Responses
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Ep. 151 Brain Death: Challenges and Responses

Does it matter if we call irreversibly comatose patients "dead?" Our guest is Doyen Nguyen, OP, MD, STD. Dr. Nguyen was previously an academic hemato-pathologist and is currently a Catholic moralhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5749302/ theologian and bioethicist. She has authored books and articles both in medicine and in moral theology/bioethics and authored a 600-page monograph that takes a critical look at brain death from a variety of perspectives.

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