Extreme Medicine Quotes

“The odds always appeared so stacked against us and the outcomes so poor that over time I became deeply pessimistic about crash calls. I remember a registrar, seeing my distress at the end of yet another failed resuscitation, putting a comforting arm around me. “It’s not really resuscitation, you know,” he said. “It’s just a funny dance we do around the dying.”
― Kevin Fong, Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the Twentieth Century

“different, what sets us apart from the inanimate matter about”
― Kevin Fong, Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the Twentieth Century

“Commercial airlines rely upon pressure to keep their passengers properly oxygenated. In preflight safety”
― Kevin Fong, Extreme Medicine: How Exploration Transformed Medicine in the Twentieth Century