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'Doctors wrongly thought I was vegetative'
A woman who had "locked-in" syndrome after a stroke in 2010 feared doctors would turn off her life support machine because they wrongly believed she was vegetative.
Victoria Derbyshire speaks to Kate Allatt, in the wake of a scientific breakthrough which has enabled patients with no control over their body to communicate by using their brain signals.
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