bacterial meningitis in Podcasts

I'm pretty sure I know who you're talking about. Wasn't this guy on Oprah? Yep, you've got that right. Eben Alexander was a neurosurgeon who contracted a rare case of bacterial meningitis that became very severe and affected his brain. He became so sick that he was placed into a medically induced coma and was unconscious for seven days. When he came back out of it, he had had a near-death experience. So he himself had had a near-death experience.