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We were all training on combative techniques...
I knew several days ahead of time that I was dying...
Excerpt from my personal essay on the subject published on openeyes1031...
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I was run over by a car and I knew I was going to die...
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...
After a day of passing blood, I went to the hospital emergency department...
I am an experienced emergency medicine physician...
I wrote of my experience in a 2019 story for Medium, as follows: I Know Something You (Probably) Don’t Know But I’m going to tell you what it is...
When I was a teenager, I was put to sleep to have all 4 wisdom teeth surgically removed...
I went into cardiac arrest...
July 1, 1988, I was a private in the United States Marine Corps, having just graduated boot camp in April...
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