Cheating Death by Sanjay Gupta, MD - GIVEAWAY!! CLOSED

This giveaway is now CLOSED! Congratulations to Dee Maxwell, Linda Kish, PISH, twifanheather, and brianpiero for winning.

About the book
-information taken from the Hachette Book Group website

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.

Sanjay Gupta, MD is a practicing neurosurgeon at Emory University Hospital and associate chief of service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. He is a columnist for TIME magazine, Chief Medical Correspondent at CNN, a contributor to 60 Minutes and appears reguarly on the CBS Nightly News with Katie Couric. Gupta is the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing Life.

MY REVIEW

This is a fascinating book with some truly amazing real-life stories inside. I found the book easy to read and understand and full of hope. It was nice to read such a positive book about the medical field and I appreciated the author's candidness. I would definitely recommend this book.

Thanks so much to the Hachette Book Group for sending me a review copy of this book and for sponsoring this giveaway.


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This giveaway is open to readers in Canada and the USA (no PO boxes). I will choose 5 winners on January 27, 2010.

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