The week's good news: July 27, 2017

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1. Student saves CPR instructor's life after he has heart attack in class

A retired nurse teaching a first aid class was saved by another retired nurse taking his course as a refresher. David Knowles, 77, was just starting the first CPR class he was instructing at his church in England, when he started to feel ill. Not knowing how much time he had before he might pass out, he started instructing the class on what to do to help him. "The whole group was up on its feet, looking like they weren't doing very well, either," Knowles told Inside Edition. Once he stopped breathing and the students knew this wasn't part of the lesson, Karol Chew, a retired nurse, gave Knowles CPR. Knowles was placed in a medically induced coma because the damage to his heart was so great, and when he woke up more than two weeks later, he couldn't remember much — except that Chew's CPR is likely what saved his life.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia is night editor for TheWeek.com. Her writing and reporting has appeared in Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, The New York Times, The Book of Jezebel, and other publications. A Southern California native, Catherine is a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.