Over a week after Gail Seiler’s physician had given her a terminal diagnosis, her husband, Brad Seiler, wheeled her out of the back door of the hospital where she had been admitted for COVID-19 on Dec. 3, 2021. “I’m so sorry, Mrs. Seiler, but you are going to die,” she recalled her physician telling her on Dec. 5. On Dec. 15, despite resistance from hospital staff, Brad extracted Seiler from Medical City Plano hospital in Plano, Texas, where the couple lives. Seiler is one of the few patients who has lived to tell her story about what she said she...