Pope Francis came close to death in the hospital, says his doctor
The pope's doctors did not think he would make it."It's terrible", Pope Francis went through a breathing crisis last month. The Pope, his hand bruises with needle stings and his saturation of oxygen that immerse themselves to a dangerously low 78 during his long hospitalization, recognized with a bankruptcy voice that could die. He held the doctor's hand.Francis had excluded intubation, which would have meant being unconscious, the leader of the medical team, said dr. Sergio Alfieri, in an interview. So his doctors decided to treat pneumonia in both lungs with a burst of drugs last speech that risked damaging his organs.The closest helpers of the Pope had tears in their eyes while the doctors asked the Pope's personal nurse, authorized to make life or death decisions, for the permission to...