Medical voice-overspeak

[Wilson Gray]

"They induced the patent into a coma."

I'd have said, "They induced a coma in the patient," but I can't pinpoint
anything specifically ungrammatical about what was actually said.

Youneverknow.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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