{"product_id":"9780553105193","title":"Working on a Miracle","description":"In 1993, while performing a routine autopsy on an AIDS patient, neuropathologist Dr. Mahlon Johnson punctured his hand and contracted the AIDS virus. As an academic physician at a major medical research hospital, he was uniquely aware of the terrors that he faced--but he was also uniquely qualified to try to save his own life. Guided by data and advice from the top AIDS researchers in the country, he made himself a guinea pig, experimenting with an aggressive treatment regimen combining different kinds of drugs--the few antivirals available at the time and the immune system-boosting but potentially toxic cancer treatment IL-2. Today, more than four and a half years later, there is no detectable virus in his blood.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWorking on a Miracle\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles Dr. Johnson's life as a young academician and the dramatic story of his personal transformation from self-proclaimed single-minded \"lab rat\" to a multifaceted doctor and patient searching for an HIV-positive woman with whom to share his life, and also for the first time, a sense of belonging to a community united to find a cure.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bantam Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47058331828464,"sku":"9780553105193","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780553105193_p0.gif?v=1763715977","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780553105193","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}