<VV> Re Convention List

[Bill Hubbell]

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From: <vairologist@juno.com>
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Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2005 2:49 AM
Subject: <VV> Re Convention List


>> > At 04:38 PM 2/11/2005, kovacsmj wrote:
>> >
> Doc (Dr. Collins) was not feeling to well and we
>> >>were a little concerned. I was sitting at the same round table
>> with him and during the middle of the usual prattling on by the head
> table,
>> Doc disappeared from view.
>> >>-------------snip-----------------
>> >> We immediately called for a medic and 3-4 people were literally
>> jumping over tables and around people to help
> ---------------------------
> Smitty says:  If I'm not mistaken Dr Bill Hubbell and his RN wife Mary
> Anne were the prime attendees to Dr Collins.



Yep, That was me and my lovely bride, all right.  I was in my Internship 
year (not yet a licensed physician!) and Mary Ann was an ICU nurse.  We were 
attending our first ever CORSA convention, sitting there at the banquet 
taking it all in when the MC suddenly cried out (I kid you not), "Is there a 
Doctor in the house?"  Next thing I know, Mary Ann and I are out of our 
chairs, jumping over tables, etc. and arrive to find this man lying comatose 
on the floor.  We started basic CPR and continued until the medics arrived. 
I thought about going with them to the hospital, but since I technically was 
only supposed to be practicing medicine in my residency program, I decided I 
should just leave it to the "pros".  So, after they took him away, we went 
back to our table and finished out the banquet.  Actually, I don't remember 
anything else about the banquet before or after that.

I think it was the next day when we found out the gentleman was actually a 
doctor who had been having chest pains most of that day, passing it off as 
"gas".

Doctors make the worst patients.....


Bill Hubbell