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Being young and (more or less) healthy, and with parents who are reasonably young and reasonably healthy, we confess we know rather little about the vagaries of geriatric medicine. But, still, we have to wonder: Even without the patient remaining in a coma a week and a half later, when an obese 77-year-old has massive stroke and several subsequent surgeries, is that something doctors are typically unconcerned about?

Sharon Still in Coma, Doctors Concerned [NYT]