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23 Doctors Had Patients That Miraculously Survived The Impossible

21.

Suicide, shotgun to the face. He held it under chin but it slipped and he blew off front of face except one eye. He was awake and tried to talk but obviously couldn’t. We ended up sedating and entubating but he lived and walked out of hospital after tons of reconstructive surgery.

22.

Someone walked in the front door with a kitchen knife sticking out between his eyes to the handle. The knife went through his sinus cavity and ended with the tip in his throat, millimeters from his brain stem. He goes into surgery and walks out of the ICU the next day.

23.

Old guy comes in with his wife. She tells me “he passed out last week and I couldn’t wake him up. After about two minutes he came around and he didn’t want to go to the hospital so we booked an appointment to see you.” I’m a little concerned by this, and his heart rate is a little slow so I send him for an EKG (heart rhythm tracing). I get a call about an hour later from the cardiologist reviewing the EKG calmly thanking me for sending him in because the wiring in his heart essentially wasn’t working and he could drop dead at any moment…again. Because the week before, he hadn’t passed out – he’d died. Through some lucky miracle his heart started again.

Written by Alex Cogen

Alex is a New Yorker currently living in Austin. She loves cats, grass, and latex but unfortunately is allergic to all 3. She makes mom and dad jokes more than she cares to admit (jk she'll admit it loud and proud). She isn't as funny as she thinks she is. She is the founder of thelazygurl.com.