In the clinic for survivors of severe, acute brain injury, the patient sat down slowly with his walker, 3 months after suffering anoxic brain injury from sudden cardiac arrest. In the neuroscience intensive care unit (NICU), he had been in a coma, and his note had read: poor neurologic prognosis. “I never thought we could get to this,” his wife said. “He is getting stronger and stronger every day, but he is different.”