The Most Unusual Way A Doctor Learned to Predict His Patient’s Time of Death

In 1946, a Ukrainian man named Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko joined the First Medical Institute of Moscow to study medicine. There was nothing unusual about this except for his first <a href="https://buteykoclinic.com/about-dr-buteyko/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">assignment</a>: he was tasked with monitoring the breathing habits of terminally ill patients prior to their deaths. As uncommon as this was, he took his role very seriously, and by the end of his time, he could predict with incredible accuracy, often to the minute, the time of death of each patient. He did this by noticing that as each patient’s condition deteriorated their breathing rate increased and this simple observation was to inspire a question that shaped much of his lifelong work: <a href="https://medium.com/illumination/the-most-unusual-way-a-doctor-learned-to-predict-his-patients-time-of-death-13a49b6450e0">Click Here</a>