People for the Ethical Treatment of Humans

March 29, 2010

She was homeless, her name unknown. She was brought into the University of Chicago Hospital’s emergency room with a large intracerebral hemorrhage, and her prognosis was very poor. Left untreated, such patients have a 90 percent chance of dying; with surgery the odds of survival are only about 50 percent, and the patient is likely to be permanently unconscious. (Chicago Reader)