I absolutely believe the premise of the article.<p>I suffered an incomplete (cervical) spinal cord injury years ago.<p>Through my 'medical journey' and many many months in the ICU before rehab I was placed on a variety of amnesiacs, as well as induced comas.<p>I remember <i>a lot</i> of things that I really shouldn't -- and I can corroborate the events with eyewitnesses who were otherwise healthy spectators.<p>I was terrified, unable to communicate, uncomfortable, and most of the time in pain.<p>When I was finally brought back to 'real' consciousness I had tubes in every orifice, a new tracheotomy, a new HALO drilled into my skull, the inability to speak and the inability to move my arms -- through no ones direct fault my only means of communication , my voice , was taken from me while I was pharmaceutically inebriated and unable to consent -- an emergency action that was medically required.<p>I eventually regained enough upper limb movement to communicate with a small whiteboard and soft erase markers while in the medical facilities. When the trach was finally removed I regained most of my voice within months of therapy, but the memories and experience still haunt me.<p>I sincerely hope that we learn enough about human consciousness at some point to allow us to better manage patient awareness and memory forming through trauma -- I think that the medical industry as a whole kind of pushes 'medical PTSD' out of the public arena of consideration as something that is 'required, known, but terrible.' -- but I hope we one day come up with real methods of reducing or preventing that kind of experience all together.<p>It feels that at this point we're much more adroit at healing bodies than psyches.