I hope that those aren't the only sources, Gordon. I'd hope that any caring professional will have a love of the subject, a concern for the welfare of others - to name but two. That said, they will also need a mental capacity to learn and a probably a love of learning as well.
As I said: talent, training and experience which covers the intelligence and vocational aspects. Most I worked with, which was quite a few, were also caring people in general and in relation to their work, and bearing in mind the duration of training and acquiring post-qualification experience followed by further specialist training medics to tend to have a strong sense of vocation - but so what: there and many people in all walks of life with similar attributes and a sense of commitment. However there are also some whose qualities are less commendable.
I understand that the human brain is the least 'evolved' organ since the time that homo sapiens first appeared on earth.
On what basis is this your understanding?
In fact, thousands of years after we stopped needing them , the human body includes a number of other obsolete organs.
So what?
http://www.oddee.com/item_98718.aspx I agree that some of these could have been errors as a result of poor medical facilities - but not all.
Not much of a recommendation so surprised you bothered to post it, so on that basis I won't bother thanks. Got anything more substantive?
Similarly, articles like this - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/14/waking-morgue-death-janina-kolkiewicz. I accept that may seem to be arguing that it doesn't occur, but with many of the examples, it is only assumed that they hadn't actually died - there are no references to results of tests carried out after the event.
Did you bother to actually read this? The final paragraph opens with 'So people can be mistaken for dead' and the article notes:
In Mutora’s case it was thought that the atropine he was given by medical staff to counteract the insecticide may have made him appear dead (it slows heart rate). With Williams, meanwhile, much has been made of the fact that the coroner who pronounced him dead, Dexter Howard, was an elected official who didn’t have a medical degree, as is the case in many US states. UK coroners may also have a medical or law degree, but the difference is they don’t have the power to pronounce people dead. That is left to medically trained staff – and for good reason.
So this article is about variable or poor clinical standards - no resurrections involved.
As far as I'm aware, there are no medical tests that can be used to confirm whether the person had wrongly been confirmed as dead, or had actually died and then recovered.
It is quite simple: provided you aren't trying to portray the interval between imminent clinical death, such as via cardiac arrest, and medical intervention being successful in averting clinical death (albeit this may be temporary) then in relation to UK standards those certified as being clinically dead remain dead. I'd estimate that during the early part of my NHS career I was involved with several dozens of in-hospital deaths: there were no mistakes, and given the popularity of cremations in many cases you'd need two qualified medics to make a mistake with the same deceased person.
Had this ever happened (it didn't) it would result in an investigation given the incompetence involved with no doubt referral to professional standards people etc and of course since death certificates are legal documents there would involvement from the Registrar and as such there would be documentary evidence. If you're convinced that dead people don't stay dead then you'll need more than an opinion piece in the Guardian that is in any event about mistakes and not 'resurrections'.
Surely it is you who ought to be producing the evidence for this point - after all, I've simply reported that there is very little, perhaps even none.
Nope - it seems you raised a non-point that I punted straight back to you: if you are acknowledging there is little or no evidence why did you even bother posting as you did in the first place?
