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Hi everybody. It's Cheryl Ackison. Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After Hours. Today, one man's

garage invention that cured himself from a threatening disease and may end up helping millions.

Today's podcast is an incredible story that begins with one man's unfortunate health crisis,

but ends with him finding a way to

cure himself with a discovery that now stands to help millions. It also exposed remarkable flaws

in America's process for finding and approving effective medical treatments. You'll be hearing from

Bradley Burnham, now founder and CEO of Turned Therapeutics,

but as you'll hear, that's not how it all started.

So I can tell you it was December 2009. I'd been a medical device rep for about a decade, which means I was in the

hospitals. I was walking around, touching the patients, you know, in the operating room a lot.

And hospitals are sort of cesspools of bacteria. You know, you can pick things up on services.

And I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. So I picked up a really, really deadly strain of bacteria. It's called

CRE, the healthcare practitioners out there know that that's not a good one to get. The kind that the

antibiotics don't work well for? A highly resistant organism. It's about a 70% fatality rate once it hits

the bloodstream. About quarter of the time, it manifests itself in the soft tissue. In my case, I started getting

abscesses on my neck and scalp the morning that I remember in December. It was actually

toward the end of December. I'd gone to bed the night before. Everything was normal. I'd brush my

teeth, looked in the mirror, didn't see anything out of the ordinary. And I woke up the next morning and this whole side of my head was black and my ear was like twice its normal

size and hot because it was infected. That's a sign of infection. Obviously terrifying. My dad's a

cardiologist. I called him, who's a local hospital physician. He said, meet me at the ER right now.

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