“She has a 101 percent chance of surviving. She will not die. She does not have that permission from me.”

As trauma chief of the University Medical Center at Tucson after treating Representative Gabrielle Giffords [Doctor: Giffords has '101 percent chance' of surviving, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41018273/ns/health-health_care/, MSNBC, January 11, 2011, 2011-01-12]

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