Try resuscitating someone and the chances are you will fail. But Lance Becker is spearheading efforts to better understand death and use this knowledge to figure out how to bring people back from the brink. Amanda Gefter spoke to the man who is overturning everything we thought we knew about resuscitation
You’ve been in emergency medicine resuscitating patients for a long time. How has that affected you?
The public watch TV shows like ER or Grey’s Anatomy and think that when we resuscitate people we bring them back most of the time. This just isn’t true. Today, the survival…
