“In the biography, Paul Zoll, MD: The Pioneer Whose Discoveries Prevent Sudden Death, Dr. Stafford Cohen does a beautiful and comprehensive job in revealing a man as quiet as he was remarkable, while chronicling a scientific movement that shook the world. As I read Cohen’s account, I didn’t always like Zoll, but that was my clue to his genius: here was a man driven, not by desire to be liked or even recognized, but by his singular, unrelenting quest to keep hearts beating. And it is in that quest that I felt his deep humanity and compassion.”

“Dr. Cohen has walked a fine line between the overly scientific and being too populist and has made the book interesting for both medical and lay readers.”

“Stafford Cohen’s book is the first full-length biography of Dr. Zoll while it strives for historical accuracy and gives a fair and balanced assessment of Zoll’s life and work, its overriding strength is to firmly establish Paul M Zoll as a compassionate innovator whose treatments and inventions make him a father of modern electrocardiac therapy.”