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The worst has happened: Fleet is tearing itself apart. Some of the mutineers see injustice in the unequal spread of the rejuvenation drugs that offer virtual immortality to the rich; others are simply thirsty for power, or for blood. The Loyalists, meanwhile, fight desperately to preserve the rule of law in Familias Regnant space. But when Esmay Suiza-Serrano is unceremoniously booted out of Fleet, the apparent victim of Family politics, she has no idea of the whirlwind of conflict into which she is about to be drawn... (Part 2 of 2) ... Read more

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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 altering our understanding of how the human body functions when it comes to survival-and why more and more patients who once would have died are now alive. From experiments with therapeutic hypothermia to save comatose stroke or heart attack victims to lifesaving operations in utero to the study of animal hibernation to help wounded soldiers on far-off battlefields, these remarkable case histories transform and enrich all our assumptions about the true nature of death and life. ... Read more

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Great read!
Very thought provoking.Sanjay Gupta provides history and current treatment regimes to get you thinking if you or one of your loved ones is in need of cutting edge treatment regimes.Great Read!

Some courage but not enough
Let me say first that I give Dr. Gutpa credit for having the guts to speak about near death experiences since most people in medicine/science tend to automatically deny such things without having read any serious studies on the subject.I suppose this is due to their fear of appearing "ridiculous" to colleagues or losing their grants, etc.Whatever the case, even though Dr. Gutpa, a mainstream medical man, has the courage to speak about NDEs, he, along with the skeptical researcher he refers to, conveniently leaves out examples of the more interesting NDE cases such as:woman leaves her body on the operating table and floats down the hall a couple of rooms to observe her husband praying for her, afterwards telling him word for word what he'd been saying (all accurate), or the one where a man zooms out of his body while ambulance personel try to revive him and sees his brother outside vomiting, or the case where a woman suffering cardiac arrest floats out of the building and up three stories to spot a sneaker on a ledge not visible from the ground or from any room or side of the building the woman was in. (A nurse later searched out of windows all over the hospital and located the shoe). I always notice that skeptical "researchers" choose the mildest cases to debunk and ignore the ones they would have serious touble explaining away.
But in spite of this, kudos to Dr. Gutpa for bringing up the subject.

Interesting, fast-paced, and informative
Cheating Death by Sanjay Gupta
Genre: Medical, Non-fiction
Rating: 5/5

Summary (from goodreads):

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 altering our understanding of how the human body functions when it comes to survival-and why more and more patients who once would have died are now alive. From experiments with therapeutic hypothermia to save comatose stroke or heart attack victims to lifesaving operations in utero to the study of animal hibernation to help wounded soldiers on far-off battlefields, these remarkable case histories transform and enrich all our assumptions about the true nature of death and life.

My Review:

Dr. Gupta takes his readers on a wild ride through modern medical science. I learned so much from this book! It was interesting, fast-paced, informative, but also held a certain amount of adventure and suspense as Gupta tells stories and relates interviews with people who have had amazing experiences with life and death--and in-between. Prepare to have your mind boggled with modern day science written in easy-to-understand and easy-to-follow prose.

Audio review: The audio-book was read by the author, and he is one of the best readers I've listened to. Gupta takes pride in his own work, and it shows through his voice. It's not too fast or slow, is read with energy, and is enjoyable and engaging.

Recommendation: Ages 16+ to anyone who likes non-fiction, medical thrillers, or thrillers of any kind.

An enlightening read on the aspect of life and death...
I've always been fascinated by the vast field of medicine and new therapies/medicines/techniques for saving lives. Some of our greatest challenges include finding out just how in the world our cells work in order to fix the best we can fix things like cancer, tumors, terminal diseases, and brain swelling among many others. In Cheating Death, the reader gets a nice look at what kinds of revolutionary new techniques are being used across the world to save patients that would have normally been given a finite amount of time to live and then die. For example, hypothermia can actually be used to reduce swelling in crucial areas of the body and even the brain that can give doctors more time to work with the patient and see if there is anything they can do for them while the swelling goes down. In another instance, Dr. Gupta describes some of the bold techniques that involve actually operating in the uterus on the unborn child itself to save it from potentially fatal pre-birth defects and/or a shortened lifespan once born. As a science fan, I was the most intrigued when Cheating Death discussed the out of body experiences that people can have when they are in cardiac arrest or in some form of "brain death". I've always wondered if these experiences were just made up out of either the person's religious beliefs or something else. The answer from the book is that it's not 100% clear just what causes these episodes. Some physicians believe it is the lack of oxygen to the brain that causes these experiences while others believe cardiac arrest/brain death can induce a form of REM-intrusion sleep and that is how people have near death experiences. The big questions that this topic presents are those such as is consciousness something that can or cannot be separated from the mind? Who knows? Can God actually be generated by stimulating certain parts of the brain only?

Cheating Death doesn't fully answer these questions, but it definitely gets the reader thinking about just how complex and philosophical these questions can be sometimes and also just the subjective nature of them. There does seem to be a little bit of tension over whether Dr. Gupta's interviews/science behind some of his chapters are correct or not. Thus far only one person on this product page has actively made it his mission to troll every reviewers comments and criticize the book. As someone that's taken a few human anatomy and physiology classes, at least 80% or so of what Dr. Gupta wrote down in Cheating Death seems pretty accurate. Again, I'm not a neurosurgeon but it seems fairly petty to nit pick over details of what people do or do not consider to be brain death, comas, vegetative states, semi vegetative states, etc. It's a complicated topic that's very much open to interpretation. To say someone is dead wrong when the leaders in the field of neuroscience are not even 100% sure of the difference between brain death and vegetative states seems a little over the top. I'd like to genuinely hear from other practicing physicians and/or medical students on this matter since it seems to be causing some discord among those who have reviewed the book so far. I like the fact that we all have our opinions and can certainly criticize a book if we choose to. However, I disagree with unfair criticism when it's constantly being spouted off by just one reviewer and no one else (aside from one time reviewers and reviewers that have long gaps in between each review). I'd like to hear what others have to say as well that actually have some medical knowledge behind them.

Overall, I took this book for what it was - which was an enjoyable read and a book that the pages flew by in as I learned a bit more about the history of medicine and how different it is today versus back then. If the author happened to confuse some controversial terms and got them wrong is a matter of opinion. It didn't stop me from enjoying the overall product of Cheating Death. It's not a perfect book but it's a nice piece of the puzzle that keeps us up to date with the latest techniques/therapies in medicine and for that reason alone I'd recommend picking it up. It's a relatively short book at 256 pages and definitely not a door-stop! :)

-Travis S.

A 'must' for any health or general lending library
CHEATING DEATH: THE DOCTORS AND MEDICAL MIRACLES THAT ARE SAVING LIVES AGAINST ALL ODDS packs in a fine examination of medicine, ethics, religion and law, detailing how science has made miraculous recoveries possible and using case files and the author's access to breaking news in his field to explain how technological advances are extending an understanding of differences between life and death. A 'must' for any health or general lending library. ... Read more