Related to today’s lead article, it is always interesting to revisit the now five-year-old case of Allan Smith, who doctors said could not survive pneumonia and leukemia while he was in an Auckland ICU. At one point an American ECMO specialist weighed in and, of course, wanted to pull the plug as well. Lucky for Allan, he had a family who fought tooth and nail the attempts to kill him.

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