I like to read books that help raise my spirits, entertain me, help me improve my health, and impart the kind of pearls of wisdom that enhance my life. Physicians Untold Stories, by Scott J. Kolbaba, fills that bill.
Although the book uses the word miraculous—and some of the stories of recovery sure defy rational explanations—there’s also a practical side to this book. As I was reading I decided that I should know more about CPR than I do. Then I learned symptoms of stroke and heart attack and became more understanding of depression and blood clots. This was all through the storytelling that was memorialized by Dr. Kolbaba’s well-documented interviews with the physicians’ whose first-hand stories he related. It is a book of stories—spellbinding ones.
I learned about palliative care (physicians specializing in treating patients with serious or terminal illnesses) and, the importance of helping seriously ill patients achieve their goals in life.
The stories also enlightened me about just how frenetic the life of many of these doctors are—starting work at 5:30 a.m. with rounds at hospitals and then ending with phone calls far into the night and on weekends. After reading the book I also created checklist of things to see my doctor about.
One of the most incredible stories was relayed by a physician who’s physician colleague had suffered a massive stroke and was in a deep coma. Even though they planned to pull the plug in three days, this physician/friend sat side at the hospital bed telling him fishing stories that he had never heard before. Because there was zero response, he doubted that what he was saying was even being heard. They had never fished together so the stories were all new ones to the doctor in the coma.
On the day that they were going terminate life support on the unconscious doctor that doctor suddenly popped up out of that deep coma and acted like his normal self. He then thanked his colleague doctor for telling him all the amusing fishing stories, and repeated them in great detail. A week later he was back at work.
The book is inspirational as well as educational. Well written, succinct, informational, and, although factual, presents medical stories that at times defied any medical explanation to the patients’ recoveries. Thank you Scott for telling these Untold Stories. You did a an impressive job doing it.
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