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Joanne Faryon

Special correspondent Joanne Faryon has been an investigative reporter for two decades. She began reporting on end of life issues several years ago, after her mother’s death.

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California

As coronavirus rages, nursing homes have ventilators that hospitals desperately need

Coronavirus: Should doctors take people off life support in order to save COVID-19 patients who might recover?
April 7, 2020
California

Columna: La culpa lo llevó a mantener viva a su esposa con lesión cerebral. ¿Qué hubiera querido ella?

Después de que su esposa estuvo en la UCI durante 27 días, los médicos le preguntaron a Steve Simmons si quería desconectarla del artefacto que la mantenía con vida.
Nov. 26, 2019
California

Column One: Guilt drove him to keep his brain-injured wife alive. What would she have wanted?

After his wife had been in the ICU for 27 days, doctors asked Steve Simmons: Did he want to disconnect her from the life-sustaining treatment?
Nov. 25, 2019
California

Column One: ‘Blink once if you can hear me’ — a brain-injured man’s remarkable awakening

Omar Salgado defied the odds in Room 20. But his is not a story about a miracle — it’s a story about medicine’s inability to accurately diagnose consciousness.
Aug. 22, 2019
EEUU

Lo han mantenido vivo con tubos durante casi 17 años. ¿Quién es él y existe la posibilidad de que esté consciente?

Descubrir su nombre resultó ser la parte fácil. La parte difícil fue navegar por las líneas borrosas que separan la conciencia de la inconsciencia - y averiguar si su sonrisa era realmente una sonrisa.
Aug. 3, 2019
California

Column One: He’d been kept alive with tubes for nearly 17 years. Who is he, and is it possible he’s conscious?

Finding out his name turned out to be the easy part. The tough part was navigating the blurred lines that separate consciousness from unconsciousness — and figuring out whether his smile was really a smile.
Aug. 1, 2019