Incredible Ability to Adapt
u/kolaporian: “My dad is a physician. He tells a story about being on call…monitoring a patient with a severe cardiac condition. In the middle of the night the patient went into cardiac arrest and he pronounced him dead after they were unable to resuscitate…Later on he got a page indicating that there was a patient who had a bone to pick with him. He returned to the ward to find the ‘deceased’ patient upright in bed, alert and fully lucid.
He was joking about the fact that he had been pronounced dead earlier that night. His return to health was remarkable, and possible only because his condition had [meant] that his body had slowly…become adapted to a low oxygen environment allowing it to survive approximately an hour without any cardiac function.”