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How much time do doctors have to wait to say someone is brain dead?
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Wrong question: Interest in determination of brain death began in the late 1960s. Eventually model legislation often called the Uniform Determination of Death Act was written. Most if not all states have passed laws specifying how brain death is to be determined, usually adopted or adapted from the UDDA. For Florida, see http://www.braindeath.org/law/florida.htm,
Answered 5/21/2016
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