Cheating Death Quotes

“If you don't want to lose your job, you become conservative, you keep your head down," he told me. "And it's pretty unfortunate, because without the willingness to fail, the possibility for great success is eliminated. [quoted from Mark Roth]”
― Sanjay Gupta, Cheating Death: The Doctors and Medical Miracles that Are Saving Lives Against All Odds

“After that experience, I decided that the things that were more important to do were the things I was actually not focused on, and I wasn't focused on them because I was pretty much afraid of failing," he says. [quoted from Mark Roth]”
― Sanjay Gupta, Cheating Death: The Doctors and Medical Miracles that Are Saving Lives Against All Odds

“According to the American Heart Association, for every minute that goes by without someone attempting CPR or defibrillation, the odds of survival decrease by 7 to 10 percent. 8 If ten minutes go by, survival is a long shot.”
― Sanjay Gupta, Cheating Death: The Doctors and Medical Miracles that Are Saving Lives Against All Odds

“There’s a saying in medicine that no one is dead until they are warm and dead.”
― Sanjay Gupta, Cheating Death: The Doctors and Medical Miracles that Are Saving Lives Against All Odds

“No event is so terribly well adapted to inspire the supremeness of bodily and of mental distress, as is burial before death… . What I have now to tell is of my own actual knowledge—of my own positive and personal experience. —Edgar Allan Poe, “The Premature Burial”
― Sanjay Gupta, Cheating Death: The Doctors and Medical Miracles that Are Saving Lives Against All Odds