The basic thing with adventure medicine or extreme medicine is that you are going to places where humans don't belong and people will certainly get into trouble.

Every time I've been on Everest, people have died, though not in any expedition I was part of.

Even as a kid in the Bronx, I wanted an adventurous life.

When I went to Amazonia, l went as the field doctor for biologists studying crocodile behavior. There's no way humans should have any encounters with crocodiles. You should stay away from them!