24
. Henry Friedman, interview.
25
. Much of Bailey’s music is available to hear at
www.davidmbailey.com
CHAPTER EIGHT: ANOTHER DAY
1
. The account of Zeyad Barazanji’s treatment is based on interviews with Barazanji and Dr. Stephan Mayer, and a reading of
Barazanji’s medical records.
2
. Mayer, interview.
3
. Wade Davis,
The Serpent and the Rainbow
(New York: Harper-Collins, 1986).
4
.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_Davis
5
. David Abel, “Line Between Life and Death Can Be Thin,”
Boston Globe
, January 26, 2001.
6
. A more detailed explanation of the bureaucratic catch-22 is laid out in Chapter One of this book.
7
. Theresa Olasveengen and others, “Abstract 13: A prospective randomized controlled trial on the effects of intravenous drug
administration on survival to hospital discharge after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest,”
Circulation
, 2008; 118:S_1447.
8
. The program,
Brennpunkt
, is aired by the Norwegian broadcaster NRK. The story on the cardiac arrest experiment was reported on January 8, 2008.
9
. Gilbert, interview.
10
. Hans Husum and others, “Rural prehospital trauma systems improve trauma outcome in low-income countries; a prospective
study from North Iraq and Cambodia,”
Journal of Trauma
54, no. 6 (2003): 1188–1196.
11
. Robert Kastenbaum,
Death, Society, and Human Experience
, 7th edition (Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2001).
AS A DOCTOR, reporter, husband, and father, I know it is the families of my patients that are often forgotten and overlooked.
Over the last two years, we directly entered the lives of the characters in this book. We took valuable time, and asked for
them to recount sometimes painful stories. We called on weekends, at night, and during holidays just to get another fact nailed
down and to get the story straight. The children, parents, spouses, and other relatives were universally patient with us,
and for that I thank you. I hope you think this book honors your loved one, and all those who cheat death.
I would also like to thank my colleague and good friend, Caleb Hellerman. This book would not have been possible without him
and his passion. Not only is he a terrific and thoughtful writer, but he is as diligent a researcher as one can find. Caleb
is also serving as the executive producer of
Cheating Death
, the documentary.
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 a columnist for
Time
magazine and chief medical correspondent at CNN, where he plays an integral role in the network’s medical coverage, including
daily reports, the show
House Call with Dr. Sanjay Gupta,
and coverage of breaking medical news. He is featured in a weekly podcast on health issues called “Paging Dr. Gupta” and
writes health news stories for CNN.com and CNNHealth.com. He is also a contributor to
60 Minutes
and the
Evening News with Katie Couric
on CBS.
Before joining CNN, Gupta was a neurosurgeon at the University of Tennessee’s Semmes-Murphy clinic, and before that, at the
University of Michigan Medical Center. He became partner of the Great Lakes Brain and Spine Institute in 2000 and in 1997
he was chosen as a White House Fellow, one of only fifteen fellows appointed. He served as special adviser to former first
lady Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Gupta has been published in a variety of scientific journals and has received numerous accolades. He received the health communication
achievement award from the American Medical Association in 2009 and his health reports swept all three health and medical
awards in 2006—the first year the National Headliner Awards honored such journalism in a dedicated category. Also in 2006,
he earned his first Emmy
®
, a Peabody, and the DuPont award.
In 2004, the Atlanta Press Club named Gupta “Journalist of the Year.” He has won the Humanitarian Award from the National
Press Photographers Association, a GOLD Award from the National Health Care Communicators, and the International Health and
Medical Media award known as the “Freddie.” His first book,
Chasing Life
, became a
New York Times
best seller and was also the subject of a one-hour documentary of the same name on CNN.
A board-certified neurosurgeon, Gupta is a member of several organizations, including the American Association of Neurological
Surgeons, Congress of Neurological Surgeons, and the Council of Foreign Relations. He serves as a diplomat of the American
Board of Neurosurgery as a Fellow in the American College of Surgery and is a certified medical investigator. Gupta is also
a board member of the Lance Armstrong LiveStrong Foundation.