The 72 Hours That Saved Malala: Doctors Reveal for the First Time How Close She Came to Death

She had survived a Taliban bullet that shattered her skull's thinnest bone, driving fragments into her brain. But one day later, as she lay in a medically induced coma in a Peshawar, Pakistan hospital, Malala Yousafzai's condition suddenly deteriorated – and her doctors did not know whether she would live or die.