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At the time of your experience, was there an associated life-threatening event...
I went on a weekend white water trip with friends on the Gauly and New Rivers in rural West Virginia...
After four years of fighting cancer...
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 arrived late in the evening at the hospital...
I was in a dark area, like in a room...
I was on a group, mountain biking ride in a remote part of San Mateo County and about 20 miles south of San Francisco...
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...
I was diagnosed with Guillain Barre Syndrome (GBS) 7 days before the experience...
June 22, 2018: I went home from jogging and took off my shoes in the corridor...
