Show 1048: How to Revive the Recently Dead
The People's Pharmacy
Joe and Terry Graedon
4.6 ā¢ 1.2K Ratings
šļø 1 September 2016
ā±ļø 58 minutes
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Summary
For millennia, when peopleĀ stopped breathing, they stopped living. The classic test for determining whether people were asleep or dead was whether they could fog a mirror.
Resuscitating the Drowned:
In the eighteenth century, the citizens of Amsterdam became alarmed at the number of residents perishing by drowning in the canals. They started a Society for the Favor ofĀ Drowned Persons that experimented with some interesting techniques to try to reviveĀ the drowned.
David Casarett, MD, reviews the history of resuscitation medicine with us. He thenĀ brings us up to date on current advances in rescuing people who have suffered heart attacks or other potentially lethal catastrophes as well as drowning. What questions should we ask as science makes it increasingly possible to revive the recently dead? Is that always desirable?
This Week’s Guest:
David Casarett, MD, MA, is a palliative care physician and health services researcher whose work focuses on improving systems of care for people with serious, life-threatening illnesses. He recently relocated from the University of Pennsylvania where he was a tenured professor of medicine. Dr. CasarettĀ is now Chief of Palliative Care atĀ the Duke University School of Medicine. HeĀ receivedĀ the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. This is the highest honor the US government gives to researchers in the early stages of their careers.
Dr. Casarett has also writtenĀ three non-fiction books, including Shocked: Adventures in Bringing Back the Recently Dead (2014). His first novel in the Ethical Chiang Mai Detective Agency series, Murder atĀ the House of Rooster Happiness, will be published in September 2016.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Joe Graydon. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm Terry Graydon. |
| 0:04.4 | Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy, where we bring you the stories behind the health headlines. |
| 0:10.8 | This podcast is brought to you by Redux Industries, makers of utterly smooth body cream. |
| 0:16.6 | 800-345-7339 on the web at utter cream.com. |
| 0:26.6 | For thousands of years, death couldn't be reversed. |
| 0:34.9 | More recently, medicine has developed techniques for shocking people back to life. |
| 0:39.6 | This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon. |
| 0:47.9 | For millennia, when people stop breathing, they stopped living. |
| 0:53.7 | The classic test for determining whether people were asleep or death. For millennia, when people stopped breathing, they stopped living. |
| 1:01.5 | The classic test for determining whether people were asleep or dead was whether they could fog a mirror held to their mouth. |
| 1:08.1 | Centuries ago, people in Amsterdam and London tried to figure out how to resuscitate drowning victims. |
| 1:12.9 | In recent years, researchers have been able to apply the scientific method to revive those who have seemingly perished by drowning or heart attacks. Coming up on the |
| 1:18.6 | People's Pharmacy, we talk with Dr. David Caserett, author of shocked adventures in bringing back |
| 1:24.3 | the recently dead. First, the news. |
| 1:32.6 | In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, |
| 1:35.7 | following a Mediterranean-style diet works as well as statin medication |
| 1:37.9 | to prevent death from heart attacks. |
| 1:40.5 | The data supporting this contention |
| 1:42.2 | is based on a study of almost 1,200 Italians that was reported at the European Society of Cardiology. |
| 1:49.5 | These patients had a history of heart disease when they enrolled in the study, and they answered an extensive questionnaire about their food habits. |
| 1:57.1 | Similarity to an ideal Mediterranean diet was calculated on a nine-point scale. |
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