Birthdate: January 10, 1924
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States
Died: June 11, 2010
Fred Plum, an American neurologist, is renowned for coining the terms “persistent vegetative state” and “locked-in syndrome” as part of his research on consciousness and comas. As the head of the neurology department at the University of Washington, Plum co-authored important works on coma diagnosis and contributed to the development of the Glasgow Coma Scale for objective monitoring of patients’ conscious state. He was a strong advocate for advance health care directives and provided medical care to prominent individuals such as Richard Nixon.
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