Sanjay Gupta's Book, Death, and Immortality
Mort Zuckerman
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Subject: Sanjay Gupta's Book, Death, and Immortality
Date: Nov 24, 2009 6:37 AM
NYT BOOK REVIEW ARTICLE BELOW
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Well, the real stories of Death and
Immortality truly come out of "Lyme
Disease:"
Pam3Cys/EBV-Immortalized B cells:
http://www.actionlyme.org/Pam3Cys_Version15.htm
and Near Death Experiences:
http://www.actionlyme.org/EXORCISMS.htm
mean hell is real, and is what selfish
people and "ALL LIARS" are going to get.
That's what the NDE survivors *all* tell us.
And I am good wid dat, although I
of course have no input on what the
Rules are. Oh, and I note that this
is not simply a Christian application:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=833IwmAprkQ
Jewish ^^ Near Death Experiences are identical.
Selfish, Me-Centered people and "ALL LIARS"
get the same outcome. Either you're
*with* the Truth or you're afraid to
"take a stand on it."
Gupta himself is afraid to take a stand
on "Lyme Disease" or the really *necessary*
information about NDEs, if this book *review*
is not *meant* to be off-target.
But this doctor isn't:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-v1Fppjlvc
Read the book Hostage to the Devil, because
although Malachi Martin says there is no
profile of the possessible person, in
every instance the possessed person
was a vain person- someone who thought there
was something special, or UNIQUE about
his or herself.
Now, who teaches us to be VAIN and "always
look out for NUMBER ONE!!"
??
A certain self-alleged doctor-class who have
no idea what the either scientific truth or
moral truth is, and who throw a complete
conniption on ya when confronted with it-
the sincerest sign of cowardice:
http://www.actionlyme.org/BRAINDAMAGE.htm
and who also Rx brain damage as a "treatment"
for the victims of evil.
?
It *is* sick but not completely unfunny:
http://www.actionlyme.org/BUNNEY_YALE_BRAIN_DAMAGE.htm
The head of the Yale Psych Department, Ben
Bunney, listed as his specialty the brain damage
from psychotropics... on his website.
LMAO
KMDickson
http://www.actionlyme.org
http://www.relapsingfever.org
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/health/24books.html?hpw=&pagewanted=print
November 24, 2009
Books
They Died, and Lived to Tell All About It
By ABIGAIL ZUGER, M.D.
Electric circuits will break your heart every time. Take my cellphone
(please): it went out in the rain a few weeks ago and then lay
neglected in a sopping wet coat pocket overnight. The next morning, it
was dead.
Nothing revived it, not the usual prayers and imprecations nor the
overnight immersion in rice recommended by Internet experts. After 72
hours, it was clearly time to give up and head for the store.
But when the moment came to unplug the corpse from its charger and
plug in its immensely expensive replacement — executioner, stay your
hand: Look who’s waking up!
Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s new book deals with the human equivalent of this
little drama, and if it seems insensitive to equate a smart piece of
plastic with a catastrophically ill human being, absolutely no
disrespect is intended, but the analogy still holds. This is a can-do
book about death by the well-known medical correspondent for CNN and
Time (and near nominee for surgeon general), which means no
bittersweet philosophic reflections on the natural arc of human
existence. The subject is simple science: the ways the body’s
circuitry can betray us, and the ways we are learning to fight back.
The science, of course, is far from simple, which makes it a fitting
showcase for Dr. Gupta’s skills as a popularizer. Straightforward and
readable, it is a book that will undoubtedly infuriate many experts
with its elisions and oversimplifications.
But the stories are great. A young skier falls into an icy crevasse
and dies of exposure; a healthy 68-year-old man has a cardiac arrest
at the gym and dies on the treadmill; a 59-year-old man has a fatal
heart attack behind the wheel of his car. Fifty years ago, all of them
would be underground, but the last decade has seen enough progress in
resuscitation — or perhaps resurrection is the word — that they are
all now alive and more or less intact.
Their deaths were actually, in Dr. Gupta’s words, visits to “a gray
zone — a faint no-man’s land where you are neither truly dead nor
actually alive.”
Those words could easily describe the average intensive care unit,
where imperiled organs are carefully nurtured while the rest of the
patient comes along for the ride. However, dead hearts and dead brains
have traditionally been the end of the line in intensive care.
Not so much anymore, Dr. Gupta says.
For instance, it has been known for a long time that freezing can
mimic death — a standard E.R. dictum states that no man is dead till
he is warm and dead. But the process of rewarming a frozen human is
perilous, for often it is not the lack of warmth or oxygen that kills
so much as their restoration, which sets off a cascade of cellular
destruction.
Cautiously rewarming the frozen skier took a few days, but her
recovery from the revival took many months. That was 10 years ago, and
experts have since begun to manipulate cellular processes with more
finesse.
Cold is now used specifically to minimize organ damage, as it was for
the man who died on the treadmill. After his heartbeat was restored,
he was transferred to an I.C.U. specializing in therapeutic
hypothermia, where he was chilled for days. Weeks later he emerged
from a coma to a long recuperation but, finally, complete health.
The man who died behind the wheel of his car had an easier time: “Just
six weeks after he died, the only lingering effect is a set of sore
ribs.”
He was revived with a new resuscitation technique that uses only rapid
chest compressions with no mouth-to-mouth breathing at all, under the
assumption that maintaining high levels of oxygen in the blood is far
less important than keeping the blood moving along. In some places,
this technique has transformed the routinely dismal survival rates of
out-of-hospital resuscitations.
Dr. Gupta visits scientists who can put laboratory creatures into deep
hibernation with various gas mixtures, a pseudo-death that reverses
instantly with no ill effects. Their goal is to create a chemical
“pause button” for humans: “a way to slow the candle, stop time, cheat
death” long enough to get a car accident victim or wounded soldier to
care.
The neurology of the near-death experience, with its shining white
light and cascade of memories, is the subject of one chapter; another
addresses the apparent miracle of catastrophic illness that melts
away, with or without prayer.
But the book’s focal point, and the place where Dr. Gupta is likely to
get some grief, is a short chapter on the dead brain. He introduces a
man who “can tell his story today” because one doctor refused to give
up on him and pull the plug, despite what appeared to be an
irreversible coma. This leads to several other oft-told anecdotes of
hopeless comas unexpectedly lifting. “Decisions are made every day in
this country to withdraw and remove people from life support without
really giving them a chance,” the patient’s doctor says.
I can almost hear the ethicists and the transplant surgeons groaning
in unison. This material is complex and inflammatory enough to need a
far longer and more technical discussion than Dr. Gupta’s breezy
listing of mistakenly hung crepe. Great stories are fine, but
sometimes there is no getting around the need for highly untelegenic,
unromantic, unhappy data.
"[Real] scientists are *fiercely* independent. That's the good
news."-- NIH's Top Fool, Anthony Fauci