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As our guests were leaving, I ran ahead to open their car door...
I was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago in the Englewood district...
I closed my eyes as my essence left my body...
We were all training on combative techniques...
I had my third open-heart surgery and was in recovery in the intensive care unit (ICU)...
Excerpt from my personal essay on the subject published on openeyes1031...
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At that time, I had an inflamed liver because my body did not process red meat well...
I was in a dark area, like in a room...
I am an experienced emergency medicine physician...
Eight years ago, I was on life support because I had complete organ failure...
My experience happened when I was 6 years old and under anesthesia for an emergency appendectomy...
I had a very bad drug problem at the time...
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