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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...
July 1, 1988, I was a private in the United States Marine Corps, having just graduated boot camp in April...
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Eight years ago, I was on life support because I had complete organ failure...
When I was 15-years-old, I began suffering from a strange psychological illness that confounded doctors...
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Looking back on my life, I now know that I have had heart problems from an early age...
I hurt my back at work and the pain was interfering with my ability to sit for long periods of time...
I went from hanging in the closet to lying down on the floor...
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During the winter of my freshman year in high school, I was in a group called the Civil Air Patrol...
My ex-girlfriend went psychotic...
I was in college at the time and went to a party with a guy...
I had felt this before and in previous experiences was able to stave off the effects of loss of complete consciousness...
