the clinical side of the test, looking for reflexes and movement, icewater in ears for a reaction, touching the cornea with a q-tip, putting a flashlight and turning the head sideways looking for dolls eyes to see if the eyes will follow it. if you are alive it takes a while for your eyes to adjust to the movement but if they are dolls eyes it means they go directly sideways when you move the head sideways. is a very short exam. i just noted that from the time of the transcript we had, there is the apnea test. originally the harvard committee said there should be confirmatory test because these tests only test the brainstem, the stalk at the base of the brain. it does not test the cortex which most of us think of as our brain. is where we think and where we feel and where we feel pain and where we feel pleasure and where we see things and hear things. so they should take an eeg of the patient to see if there any are any brainwaves. that is the terminator. these tests decrease, not increasing as more technology has been developed that has not been used. for example, had scans were used in en