Resuscitation Quotes

“Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.”
― Anatole Broyard, Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir

“And I left him there, this saver of lives. I left him on his knees peering into the eyes of a stranger he’d rescued from oblivion.”
― Philip Elliott, Hunger & Hallelujahs

“Let me kiss you and take your breath away, we'll worry about resuscitating you later.”
― Ahmed Mostafa

“the resuscitation promised
season after season, more and more
like the paramedic breathing into
the heart-stopped victim; the victim
stretched unconscious on the sidewalk,
the savior with the fix leaning into
and sucking the dead back
to the difficult, even impossible,
even dreaded and unwanted quick.”
― Ruth Stone, In the Next Galaxy

“The registrar, who was very experienced and wise, immediately ordered an industrial dose of diamorphine. This was possibly my first experience of a competent and humane doctor going outside guidelines to better serve the patient’s needs.
His thoughts on when, and when not to, discontinue resuscitation bought perspective to the existing didactic protocols.”
― Liam Hughes, Bodily Fluids: Five Decades of Blood, Phlegm and Bile on the Hospital Frontline