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Dr. Stephan Mayer “This Woman Explains What It’s Like to Be in a Medically Induced Coma”

  • Yahoo! Health
  • New York, NY
  • (November 25, 2015)

Writer Emily Gordon’s piece explores what it’s like to enter a coma and come out the other side — which is still mysterious to doctors and researchers, according to neurointensivist Stephan Mayer, MD, director of neurocritical care at Mount Sinai Health System, who works regularly with coma patients. “She suffered a near-death experience and does correctly make the distinction that she was in a medically induced coma,” he tells Yahoo Health. “It is very much a hazy, netherworld-like experience.” Read more