{"id":97504,"date":"2019-10-16T14:02:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T21:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/this-med-student-was-given-last-rites-before-finding-a-treatment-that-saved-his-life-his-method-could-help-millions"},"modified":"2019-10-16T14:02:32","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T21:02:32","slug":"this-med-student-was-given-last-rites-before-finding-a-treatment-that-saved-his-life-his-method-could-help-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/this-med-student-was-given-last-rites-before-finding-a-treatment-that-saved-his-life-his-method-could-help-millions","title":{"rendered":"This med student was given last rites before finding a treatment that saved his life. His method could help millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-med-student-was-given-last-rites-before-finding-a-treatment-that-saved-his-life-his-method-could-help-millions2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He lay in a hospital bed at the University of Arkansas, stricken with a rare disease. His blood platelet count was so low that even a slight bump to his body could trigger a lethal brain bleed. A doctor told him to write his living will on a piece of paper.<\/p>\n<p>Fajgenbaum was rushed to a CT scan. Tears streamed down his face and fell on his hospital gown. He thought about the first patient who\u2019d died under his care in medical school, and how her brain had bled in a similar way from a stroke.<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t believe he\u2019d live out the scan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He lay in a hospital bed at the University of Arkansas, stricken with a rare disease. His blood platelet count was so low that even a slight bump to his body could trigger a lethal brain bleed. A doctor told him to write his living will on a piece of paper. Fajgenbaum was rushed to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}