<VV> Re Convention List

[kovacsmj]

Bill, Mary Ann,
 Finally I have a couple of people to thank for their prompt reactions.
Dr. Collins knew he had an inoperable heart condition. He had left his
home with a corvair that broke down before he had gotten too far. He
returned home and took his '64 Spyder. He was determined to go. This was
a bit of a last minuet decision, as we had asked at our last meeting if
he wanted to travel with us. 

 He did not stay at the host hotel, but we managed to find him several
times and did notice he was not moving too quickly, so we always stayed
with him. I guess if he told us of the problem we might have been able
to intervene.

 Doc was a local Pediatrician, and the church services were packed. He
donated his body to his medical college for research and training. A
doctor to the end!

 Again thanks for the assistance. Someone is grateful and remembers!!!

Getting all the information is most of the solution. 
MIKE KOVACS
 

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>> > 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
> ---------------------------
> 

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