Coma

If we're to believe typical depictions on TV and in the movies, when someone wakes up from a coma, they get up, get out of bed and go straight back to their lives without missing a beat. That's not quite accurate. In this show, we attempt to demystify the condition of coma:-what is it, how it's treated, how patients recover and its impact on the lives of survivors and their families. Guests include: Ian Elliot, coma survivor; Dr. Ronald Cranford of the Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Dr. Nancy Childs of the Brown Schools Rehabilitation Center in Austin, Texas; Kay Guynes, whose son Michael is a coma survivor; Dr. Randall Chesnut of the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, and Peter Quinn, the executive director of the Brain Trauma Foundation. we also visit the Center for Head Injuries at the JFK Johnson Rehabilitation Center in Edison, New Jersey. Commentary by John Hockenberry.Hosted by Dr. Fred Goodwin and produced by the Peabody Award winning Lichtenstein Creative Media .