"A man navigates the medical system with humor"

A vast understatement. If "plastic bag of shit" grosses you out too much, don't listen.

But if Andy Borowitz explaining how he got within an inch of dying and then came all the way back, and then making very funny jokes about it--concerning, for examples, "pro-illestomy propagands" and "I know you've had a lot of complications with these first two surgeries, so I'm gonna be extra careful this time"--might interest you, then do listen. 

Comments

[JorgXMcKie]

That's funny, but it got me thinking, too.
First, about how lucky he really was, even with all that trouble. In many [maybe most] parts of the world he'd be dead.
Second, I wonder how many people in history have died from that sort of thing because no one could diagnose it or fix it?
whew!