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In the spring of 1991, the Hennepin County Minn. Medical Center to court in an attempt to determine if physicians in its employ were legally to continue treatment they believed was no longer beneficial their patient, an elderly woman in a persistent vegetative state. The and other family members of Helga Wanglie insisted that she be on a respirator against the judgment of her physicians. Wanglie within days of the trial court's decision (
Steven H. Miles (Thu,) studied this question.