Dr. Sanjay Gupta
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, best-selling author and celebrated medical journalist, returns with a fascinating exploration of the very thin line between life and death in CHEATING DEATH: The Doctors and Medical Miracles that Are Saving Lives Against All Odds.
We think of death in stark terms. Dead or alive. You’re here and then you’re gone. However, with amazing advances in technology and medicine, the thin line between life and death is rapidly shifting even in the most unexpected instances. A 22-week-old unborn baby with a fatal heart defect… a skier drowned for an hour in a frozen Norwegian lake… a comatose brain surgery patient… a teenager with four rapidly expanding tumors. Twenty years ago all of these cases would have been given up for dead—with no realistic hope of survival. Today, thanks to incredible new advances by pioneering physicians and medical researchers, each of these individuals has cheated death and is alive and well.
In CHEATING DEATH, Dr. Sanjay Gupta chronicles the almost unbelievable science that has made these seemingly miraculous recoveries possible as well as the efforts of a bold new breed of doctors who refuse to accept that any life is irretrievably lost. Drawing on extensive case files and his unprecedented access to breaking news in his field, Dr. Gupta clearly and dramatically explains how revolutionary technological advances are extending our understanding of the human body’s survival mechanisms and actually shifting the line between life and death. Through these deeply personal and often moving stories of medical triumphs over almost unthinkable barriers, Dr. Gupta transforms all of our assumptions about the boundaries that mark the beginning and end of human life.
Sanjay Gupta, MD, is a practicing neurosurgeon and associate chief of neurosurgery at Grady Memorial Hospital and assistant professor at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. He is Chief Medical Correspondent at CNN, a columnist for Time Magazine, and a contributor to 60 Minutes and The Evening News with Katie Couric. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Chasing Life.
We think of death in stark terms. Dead or alive. You’re here and then you’re gone. However, with amazing advances in technology and medicine, the thin line between life and death is rapidly shifting even in the most unexpected instances. A 22-week-old unborn baby with a fatal heart defect… a skier drowned for an hour in a frozen Norwegian lake… a comatose brain surgery patient… a teenager with four rapidly expanding tumors. Twenty years ago all of these cases would have been given up for dead—with no realistic hope of survival. Today, thanks to incredible new advances by pioneering physicians and medical researchers, each of these individuals has cheated death and is alive and well.
In CHEATING DEATH, Dr. Sanjay Gupta chronicles the almost unbelievable science that has made these seemingly miraculous recoveries possible as well as the efforts of a bold new breed of doctors who refuse to accept that any life is irretrievably lost. Drawing on extensive case files and his unprecedented access to breaking news in his field, Dr. Gupta clearly and dramatically explains how revolutionary technological advances are extending our understanding of the human body’s survival mechanisms and actually shifting the line between life and death. Through these deeply personal and often moving stories of medical triumphs over almost unthinkable barriers, Dr. Gupta transforms all of our assumptions about the boundaries that mark the beginning and end of human life.
Sanjay Gupta, MD, is a practicing neurosurgeon and associate chief of neurosurgery at Grady Memorial Hospital and assistant professor at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. He is Chief Medical Correspondent at CNN, a columnist for Time Magazine, and a contributor to 60 Minutes and The Evening News with Katie Couric. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Chasing Life.