Every Deep-Drawn Breath Quotes

“malignant normality.”
― Wes Ely, Every Deep-Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU

“No one chooses to be a patient, but everyone can choose to keep sight of the person in the hospital gown.”
― Wes Ely, Every Deep-Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU

“Its's not enough to keep people from dying. We have to save the life that they want to return to, the one they had before they came to us." This was critical care nurse Mary Ann Barnes-Daly's mantra...”
― Wes Ely, Every Deep-Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU

“She had been a mentor to so many of her high school students, inviting them over to our house on Mockingbird Lane, helping them learn lines from Shakespeare for the plays she directed. I was in grade school at the time and had loved to listen to their discussions. They seemed to know so much, and I hoped I would absorb their knowledge.”
― Wes Ely, Every Deep-Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU

“No one chooses to be a patient, but everyone can choose to keep sight of the person in the hospital gown.
Samuel Shem’s novel The House of God, about”
― Wes Ely, Every Deep-Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU