An 11-year-old boy, who had died in his mother's back seat on the way to the hospital after an asthma attack, was revived on the side of the road after several minutes during which a hair transplant doctor did not give up on resuscitation efforts.

Strangers prayed alongside the man who had just gassed up his porsche and heard the mother screaming in agony nearby.

"I was terrified," said the 32-year-old Dr. Amir Yazdan, who had never actually done chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth breathing – except on dummies in medical school.

(READ the dramatic rescue story in the OC Register)