In a 2006 episode of Scrubs (which is tied for the highest-rated episode of the series), Dr. Cox makes a decision that appears to save the day, and then backfires horribly.

Three patients need new organs, and two of them will die within a few hours if they don’t get transplants. Dr. Cox is doing everything he can to find the organs he needs, and he finally gets them when another patient dies of an apparent drug overdose. But after the transplants are made, he learns that the donor actually died of rabies. This means that all three patients are now infected, and the race is on to save them.

Then this happened: (warning – really sad!)

(This episode was based on the true story of three American patients who died in 2004 after receiving transplants from a donor with rabies. The donor died of a brain hemorrhage after smoking crack cocaine, so that was assumed to be the cause of death. Only later was he found to have rabies, which would produce similar symptoms.)

How would you feel if you made the call that caused someone to die? Would you completely shut down, turn to destructive behavior, and let it take over your life? Or would you be able to effectively work through the crisis in the healthiest way possible?

Mary Jaksch explains how to successfully emerge from the darkest moments in her ebook From Tragedy to Triumph: Winning Through a Life Crisis. Unfortunately, bad things can happen when we least expect them. If you haven’t yet, be sure to check out my review of her ebook (the previous link) and see if you think it would be helpful to you, now or in the future.

As for Dr. Cox, let’s hear your thoughts. Did he make the right call by ordering the transplants without waiting for an autopsy? Should he have first ordered transplants for the two patients who were about to die, but waited on the third one? If he made the wrong call, is it forgivable? The third patient was his friend. Does this make a difference, or is a life a life? When deciding whether to quit practicing medicine, is it more important to consider his past mistake or the good he could do in the future?

Have you ever experienced a life crisis, one that threatened to cripple you with fear, anger, jealousy, guilt, or stress? Mary Jaksch did last year, when an unscrupulous builder cheated her out of a six-figure sum and left her future in jeopardy.

Fortunately for Mary though, she had the benefit of being a psychotherapist and Zen master. She knew a way of getting through her crisis that was a lot healthier than what most of us would have done. After all, she’s helped many people work through the worst times in their lives, showing them how to recover and be happy again. And now she’s showing us how to do just that in her ebook.

The five steps of healing that Mary covers are acceptance, presence, action, forgiveness, and integration. Mary goes into detail on how to move through each step, using examples of people she knows who have successfully recovered from a crisis.

And speaking of these examples, be warned that they are pretty brutal and depressing. If you’d be bothered by reading about things like a 26-year old girl being knifed and stoned to death, then that’s something to consider. However, in the other reviews I’ve read, no one else has mentioned this, so maybe it’s just me.

I figure that the best way to use an ebook like this is not to wait until you’re in the middle of a life crisis, but to read it beforehand and then refer to it when you need it. It’s like car insurance: you hope you never need it, but it’s sure better to be prepared, isn’t it?

This ebook is 42 pages, beautifully laid out and illustrated, and it even comes with an audio version at no extra cost. It’s really cheap at only $12.50, and there’s an affiliate program that pays 40%.

From Tragedy to Triumph shows you how to reclaim your life after a family death, job loss, divorce, serious health issue, etc. You’ll learn how to:

Overcome fear, anger, jealousy, guilt, and stress.

Use proven feel-better strategies.

Rid yourself of obsessive thoughts.

Free yourself from hate, resentment, and bitterness.

Find forgiveness.

Return to your normal life happy and free of worry.

Discover new meaning in life.

Whether you’re currently going through a life crisis, or you want to know how to reclaim your life if one happens, From Tragedy to Triumph will help you find your way through the healing process.