Vegetative Patient Tell Doctors He Is Not in Pain

• In Canada, 2012, doctors were able to communicate with a man in a vegetative state. Coma patient Scott Routley was able to tell doctors by using his thoughts that he was not in any pain.
• Mr Routley suffered a severe brain injury in a car accident.
• It's the first time an uncommunicative, severely brain-injured patient has been able to give answers clinically relevant to their care
• Vegetative patients emerge from a coma into a condition where they have periods awake, with their eyes open, but have no perception of themselves or the outside world.