Bertolini Recounts Near-Fatal Skiing Accident and Five-Day Coma
Mark Bertolini · The CEO Who Cheated Death, Slept an Hour a Night, and Built a Healthcare Empire · Invest Like The Best · Aug 19, 2025 · at 1:05
Oscar Health CEO Mark Bertolini explains the background of his skull ring to host Patrick O'Shaughnessy, recalling a catastrophic 2004 skiing accident.
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“Skiing one day and had gone into the woods and caught an edge looking over my shoulder and hit a tree, broke my neck, and slid 60 feet headfirst down into a river in a coma. I broke five of my vertebrae macerated my brachoplexus, disconnected my nerve root from my left arm from my spinal cord and they, it took them two hours to extract me from this ravine I was in, and they medevaced me to a hospital, gave me last rites on the way. I was in a coma for five days”
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