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The Real by Days of the New from the album Days of the New II (AKA Green album)

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Técnica que "ressuscita mortos" será testada em seres humanos

Técnica que “ressuscita mortos” será testada em seres humanos

Professores de medicina das universidades do Arizona e de Maryland, nos Estados Unidos da América, estão a causar um frenesim na comunidade científica mundial com uma técnica radical para ressuscitar pessoas declaradas como “clinicamente mortas”. Após uma série de testes bem-sucedidos com animais, os investigadores obtiveram autorização para testar em humanos a “suspensão” da morte. O procedimento…

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The Making of Peter Rhee, World-Renowned Trauma Surgeon

by JAMES S. KIM

It seemed written in the stars for Peter Rhee to become a surgeon. When he was 6 years old and living in Uganda with his family, he saw a local villager with a spear in his belly brought to his surgeon-father, then watched as the elder Rhee rode away on the bed of a truck with the victim next to him.

Though the younger Rhee would consider engineering as a career path at one point in his life, partly because he was a rebellious teenager who didn’t want to follow in his dad’s footsteps, this dramatic scene never left him, and he would later come to embrace medicine for himself.

“It just felt right,” he explains in his new memoir, Trauma Red: The Making of a Surgeon in War and in America’s Cities, published earlier this year. The book, co-written with journalist Gordon Dillow, is the result of years of family and colleagues prodding the world-renowned trauma surgeon—perhaps most recognizable for his role in saving the life of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords—to share his story. Today, the 53-year-old doesn’t hesitate to tell his own children and the rest of the world how fulfilling his career—which includes serving as a frontline Navy surgeon in Iraq and Afghanistan—has been. But he notes he wrote the book not for himself, but first and foremost, for his profession.

“[Nearly] everyone knows what a brain surgeon is and what a heart surgeon is in this country,” says Rhee, sitting outside a Santa Monica café in July. “Maybe 20,000 people know what a trauma surgeon is.

“Trauma is one area where … it could be a kid, it could be an old mother, it could be a police officer, someone in prison, a drug addict—it doesn’t matter. I just get to take care of you, and I get to deal with all of society,” he says. “It’s a gift.”

Read full interview here. 

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Will Suspended Animation Become a Real Thing?

Will Suspended Animation Become a Real Thing?

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A theme common in science fiction media, suspended animation, or the indefinite suspension of human life is something that seems impossibly dangerous, fit only for books and the big screen, but this month, at the UPMC Presbyterian Hospital, the first human testing of suspended animation will take place on ten patients.  While the purpose of this will…

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CBS Radio News just did a short piece on Dr. Peter Rhee, the surgeon leading Gabby Giffords's medical care. Dr. Rhee was addressing the media when his cell phone rang. And it was the ringtone that caught everyone's attention: the Bee Gees' "Stayin' Alive." Dr. Rhee and his team are fucking rockstars.

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No one that shouldn't have died, died.

University Medical Center Trauma Unit chief Peter Rhee • Sounding cautiously optimistic about the results his surgery crew has had with the Gabrielle Giffords shooting last week. Rhee sounds like the right guy to be handling a shooting like this unfortunate mess – he has loads of experience with these sorts of incidents. "I was in the Navy for 24 years and I trained for nothing but battlefield casualties," he said. . "We can take anything they throw at us from a civilian standpoint." Giffords, by the way, remains in critical condition. source (via • follow)