He and his colleagues have a lot of them: They wake up 84 percent of their patients from a minimallyconscious or vegetative state.
他和他的同事有不止一次的“侥幸成功”:他们成功使84%的病人从最小意识或植物人状态醒来。
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Disorders of consciousness come in shades of gray, from severely impaired "vegetative states" to the perplexing "minimallyconsciousstate" in which people slip into and out of awareness.