Unbelievable Survivals: 70 Patients Defied All Odds Against Grim Medical Diagnoses
While he was on the treadmill, his blood pressure dropped to zero, then restarted, then dropped to zero again. The nurse who stepped out of the room dialed 911. They let him finish because they figured as soon as he stopped, the heart attack would start in earnest. Quadruple bypass later and he lived, but note, he said he never felt the same. A bypass is not a panacea.
Edit: Panacea solution to all problems. (Apparently, not a commonly used word.).
Not a doctor, but firefighter. We had a 30’s year old male put a shotgun in his mouth pointing up to his nose pull the trigger and survive. We show up work him, he’s breathing, but missing most of his face and we transport him. He survives and we are all amazed. Three months later he does it again, but a .22 to the temple it bounced around and exited through his eye. He survives again. With some mental deficits and a glass eye, but still one of the craziest I’ve seen.
Obligatory “not mine, but” dad was an ER doc and one he told a lot one I was present for were…
—a guy with a blood alcohol level of .85 was basically dead on a gurney not breathing. Suddenly, this f****r sits up and punches my dad right in the face says “turn those d**n lights off.” and then lays back down and passes out. Apparently, he was a massive alcoholic and no one knew how he was still alive and he had some kind of crazy tolerance built up.
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