What does life-saving mean?
Life-saving means Preserving life; preventing death..
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Preserving life; preventing death..
King was later said to have been within a sneeze or a jolt of extinction. Were it not for the pair of cops who gingerly carried him from Blumstein’s department store and the pair of surgeons who performed lifesaving surgery at Harlem Hospital there would have been no “I Have a Dream” speech and likely no national holiday honoring him.
Rizwan, who began his career on the railways in 2015, has risen to national prominence after making an estimated 29 life-saving interventions.
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Life-saving means Preserving life; preventing death..
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King was later said to have been within a sneeze or a jolt of extinction. Were it not for the pair of cops who gingerly carried him from Blumstein’s department store and the pair of surgeons who performed lifesaving surgery at Harlem Hospital there would have been no “I Have a Dream” speech and likely no national holiday honoring him.
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