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Cheating Death : The Doctors and Medical Miracles That Are Saving Lives Against All Odds by Sanjay Gupta with research by Caleb Hellerman is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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An unborn baby with a fatal heart defect . . . a skier submerged for an hour in a frozen Norwegian lake . . . a comatose brain surgery patient whom doctors have declared a "vegetable." Twenty years ago all of them would have been given up for dead, with no realistic hope for survival. But today, thanks to incredible new medical advances, each of these individuals is alive and well . . .Cheating Death. In this riveting book, Dr. Sanjay Gupta-neurosurgeon, chief medical correspondent for CNN, and bestselling author-chronicles the almost unbelievable science that has made these seemingly miraculous recoveries possible. A bold new breed of doctors has achieved amazing rescues by refusing to accept that any life is irretrievably lost. Extended cardiac arrest, "brain death," not breathing for over an hour-all these conditions used to be considered inevitably fatal, but they no longer are. Today, revolutionary advances are blurring the traditional line between life and death in fascinating ways. Drawing on real-life stories and using his unprecedented access to the latest medical research, Dr. Gupta dramatically presents exciting accounts of how pioneering physicians and researchers are a

Author

Sanjay Gupta with research by Caleb Hellerman

Publisher

Grand Central Life & Style

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780446558006

Subjects

Health & Fitness, Medical, Lifestyle

Rating

3.81 / 5 (571 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13