Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the Twentieth Century Fong Kevin
Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the Twentieth Century Fong Kevin Little more than one hundred years ago, maps of the world still boasted white space: places where no human…
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Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the Twentieth Century Fong Kevin
Little more than one hundred years ago, maps of the world still boasted white space: places where no human had ever trod. Likewise, in the twentieth century, medicine transformed human life. Within a few short decades the most hostile of the world's environments had all been conquered.
As modernity brought us ever more into different kinds of extremis, doctors pushed the bounds of medical advances and human endurance. Doctors took what was routinely fatal and made it survivable. Extreme exploration challenged the body in ways that only the vanguard of science could answer.
Doctors, scientists, and explorers all share a defining trait: they push on in the face of grim odds. Because of their extreme exploration we not only understand our physiology better; we have also made enormous strides in the science of healing.Drawing on his own experience as an anesthesiologist, intensive
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