A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH‘All I can say is that Mr Palmer has undergone emergency surgery to relieve bleeding on the brain and that his situation remains critical, very critical,’ Dr Edward Armstrong, the doctor on duty, advised.
‘Is he likely to recover?’ Yarrow asked.
‘He has suffered a Catastrophic Brain Trauma, which effectively means the permanent loss of all brain function above the brain stem. He may well live but never recover consciousness. He could likely be in a permanent vegetative state for the rest of his life, which could be for years, 40, 50 years, nobody knows. He will be kept alive but that is all. However, I am not a specialist, and Mr Barrow, the consultant neurologist from the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, might well give a different prognosis when Mr Palmer
