All Bleeding Stops Quotes

“Unlike in other developed countries, it is a privilege to be healthy rather than a right in America.”
― Stephen M. Cohn, All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit

“in high-income countries, it is estimated that one in every ten patients is harmed while receiving hospital care.2”
― Stephen M. Cohn M.D., All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit

“When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion. Ethiopian proverb”
― Stephen M. Cohn M.D., All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit

“One-third of lightning strikes, surprisingly, occur in individuals who remain indoors. Two-thirds of lightning injuries happen between noon and 6 p.m.”
― Stephen M. Cohn M.D., All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit

“5 percent of all burn unit admissions in the United States occur because of electrical injuries,”
― Stephen M. Cohn M.D., All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit

“In the United States, there are about one thousand deaths per year because of electrical injuries.”
― Stephen M. Cohn M.D., All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit

“Sports teach you how to be quick. Injuries teach you how to slow down.”
― Stephen M. Cohn M.D., All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit

“The greater the ignorance, the greater the dogmatism. William Osler (1849–1919)”
― Stephen M. Cohn M.D., All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit

“All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860)”
― Stephen M. Cohn M.D., All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit