"[Thsi book] documents, in an experimental form, the experience of extended life-threatening illness in contemporary US hospitals and clinics. The narrative is based primarly on the author's ... collapse into a coma and long hospitalization thirteen years ago; but it has also be…
Autobiography of a Disease documents, in experimental form, the experience of extended life-threatening illness in contemporary US hospitals and clinics. The narrative is based primarily on the author's sudden and catastrophic collapse into a coma and long hospitalization thirte…
Staphylococcus aureus is now acknowledged as being the most important bacterial pathogen of humans. It usually produces localized disease but can be rapidly invasive, spreading through the tissues, invading bone, and seeding the bloodstream to produce a fulminant picture of sept…