Husband's love and a rollicking save coma wife - Telegraph

Here is where socialized medicine gets you! A young British woman age 28, slipped into unconsciousness from severe blood poisoning moments after being told her baby had died. Her husband kept a round the clock vigil at her bedside for two weeks and then was told by doctors they they would remove her from life support. Two Weeks! Did you hear that? Doctors under England's system of socialized medicine gave this woman just two weeks to recoer before writing her off! Here is the story from the Telegraph:

Husband's love and a rollicking save coma wife - Telegraph: "But when doctors told him they could have to switch off her life support machine, Mr Sullivan took drastic action - by giving his wife a firm telling-off."

Reborn | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited

"For three years, Riaan Bolton has lain motionless, his eyes open but unseeing. After a devastating car crash doctors said he would never again see or speak or hear. Now his mother, Johanna, dissolves a pill in a little water on a teaspoon and forces it gently into his mouth. Within half an hour, as if a switch has been flicked in his brain, Riaan looks around his home in the South African town of Kimberley and says, 'Hello.' Shortly after his accident, Johanna had turned down the option of letting him die." To read more about this story visit: Reborn | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited