Dr. Eben Alexander lay in a hospital bed, his mind slipping into a deep coma as his brain was ravaged by bacterial meningitis. His chance of survival was only 2 percent.
For the next seven days, his brain showed no activity. By every medical standard, Alexander, a distinguished graduate of Duke Medical School and a Harvard-trained neurosurgeon, should not have returned. And yet, he not only survived, but he also emerged from the coma with a story that would change his life and stretch scientific explanation.
