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008			221202s2023 nyu b 001 0deng
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020			_a9781538709863 _q(hardcover)
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035			_a(OCoLC)1345214975
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092			_a616.9802 _bB234
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aBarber, Charles, _d1962- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aIn the blood : _bhow two outsiders solved a centuries-old medical mystery and took on the US Army / _cCharles Barber.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a2305
264		1	_aNew York : _bGrand Central Publishing, _c2023.
300			_axx, 281 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPrelude: Mogadishu, 1993 -- Part One: The Man who Saw the Caverns -- The Simplest Idea -- All Bleeding Stops Eventually -- The Salesman with Nothing to Sell -- The Wars -- The Rower -- The Wound-Dresser -- Already Dead -- "You burn people!" -- The Danger of Using a Sledgehammer to Crack a Nut -- Emotional Bankruptcy -- Part Three: The Finish Line -- The United States v. Novo Nordisk -- The Army's Greatest Invention -- Postscript: The Left Side of the Menu.
520			_a"The incredible true story of how an absent-minded inventor and a down-on-his-luck salesman joined forces to create a once in a generation lifesaving product-and were persecuted for it by the U.S. Army. At the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu, dramatized by the popular film Black Hawk Down, the majority of soldiers who died bled to death before they could even reach an operating table. This tragedy reinforced the need for a revolutionary treatment that could transform trauma medicine. So, when Frank Hursey and Bart Gullong-who had no medical or military experience-discovered that a cheap, crushed rock called zeolite had blood clotting properties, they brought it to the military's attention. The Marines and the Navy adopted the resulting product, QuikClot, immediately. The Army, however, resisted. It had two products of its own being developed to prevent excessive bleeds, one of which had already cost eighty million dollars. The other, "Factor Seven," had a more dangerous complication: its side effects could be deadly. Unwilling to let its efforts end in failure-and led by the highly influential surgeon Major John Holcomb-the Army set out to smear the reputations of the inventors whose product, they claimed, had its own risk. Over the course of six years, Hursey and Gullong engaged in an epic struggle with Holcomb for recognition-until a whistle blower inside the Army exposed Holcomb's financial ties to the pharmaceutical company that produced Factor Seven, a discovery that led to a massive lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice. By withholding QuikClot-which would later become the medical miracle of the Iraq War-and using Factor Seven with its known, life threatening risks, Holcomb imperiled countless American lives. Using deep reportage and riveting prose, In the Blood recounts this little known David and Goliath story of corruption, greed, and power within the military-and the devastating, fatal consequences of unchecked institutional arrogance"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aMedicine, Military _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aHemorrhage _xTreatment _zUnited States _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aSurgical dressings _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aWound treatment equipment industry _xHistory _y20th century.
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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