{"id":5541,"date":"2025-01-22T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=5541"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:10:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:10:57","slug":"book-talk-tom-combs-nerve-damage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/book-talk-tom-combs-nerve-damage\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Talk: Tom Combs, \u2018Nerve Damage\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5541\" class=\"elementor elementor-5541\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4a40fee7 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"4a40fee7\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-19528428 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"19528428\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In 2008, Tom Combs, an emergency-room physician suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). This involves bleeding in the space between the brain and the thin layer of tissue that covers it. It may be caused by head trauma or a bleeding aneurysm, and it is morbidly serious.<\/p><p>According to the Health Library, half the people who experience SAH suffer immediate death. However, of those who don\u2019t, one-third die in the hospital; one-third survive with a disability, and one-third return to normal functioning. But, for those who survive, seizures and spasms are common complications. So, Dr. Combs retired from medical practice and turned his talents to writing.<\/p><p>In his debut novel, \u201cNerve Damage\u201d (2014, 316 pages in softcover format), he states in the Dedication, \u201cFor twenty-five years, I\u2019ve worked the front lines of U.S. emergency care alongside police, fire\/rescue paramedics, EMTs, nurses, fellow doctors, technicians, air rescue crews, and the many others who respond when illness, trauma, or tragedy strike.\u201d So, it\u2019s apparent that Combs knows the medical establishment from both sides, patient and provider.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2008, Tom Combs, an emergency-room physician suffered a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). This involves bleeding in the space between the brain and the thin layer of tissue that covers it. It may be caused by head trauma or a bleeding aneurysm, and it is morbidly serious. According to the Health Library, half the people who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-5541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-literature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}