Aspiring Doctor Left Brain Dead After Friends Pushed Him Into US Lake
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The man is still on life support and his lungs are said to be at 20 per cent capacity.
An aspiring doctor from the United States was left brain dead after his friends pushed him into a lake in Louisiana despite knowing he couldn't swim and then watched helplessly as he drowned, as per a report in the New York Post. A shocking video that is making rounds on social media shows the group staring into the lake minutes after pushing Christopher Gilbert over the dock at Lake D'Arbonne in Farmerville on April 14.
In the clip, a woman is seen going into the lake to search for the man before abandoning the rescue mission. Almost 10 minutes later, a customer at a neighbouring restaurant intervened and brought Mr Gilbert back to shore, just in time. The 26-year-old was brain dead when he arrived at a local hospital, and his other organs were failing, according to his mother, Yolanda George.
The medical student spent 72 hours on a ventilator and an ECMO machine which the mother said is a "dialysis for the lungs." She said, "I was devastated. I felt like my life had ended in that moment. My son is aspiring to be a medical doctor, my son is going to be a medical doctor. He got his master's last year in biological science. He's preparing for medical school so for this to have happened to him ... I was just devastated."