While making coffee just after rolling out of bed, this MD sees a gunshot victim right outside his front window and must intervene before the man bleeds out.
Emergencies happen anywhere, anytime, and sometimes medical professionals find themselves in situations where they are the only ones who can help.It was a quiet day. I got up around 3 o'clock in the afternoon for my ER shift at 6 PM. I was shaking off the cobwebs and making coffee at our front window that overlooked Brown Street in North Philadelphia. I looked out the window and saw a man stumbling down the street, grabbing his abdomen and yelling for help.
I got the towel and started applying deep pressure down into the iliac vein in case they hit something, which I found out later, they had. I held it there. The man was just lying there begging not to die. So, I was holding pressure and some people started to come over. I got somebody to call 911 and asked the man about his medical history. I found out he had diabetes. Five or 10 minutes later, EMS showed up. They looked pretty stunned when I was able to give the handoff presentation to them. I told them what happened and his backstory. I wanted to make sure they would check his sugar and take extra precautions.
I went back inside and tried to get ready for work. I wasn't planning on talking to the media, but my next door neighbor just walked the news camera crew over to my house and knocked on my door. I wasn't exactly dressed to be on TV, but they talked to me on camera, and it was on the news later that night.
The man came to see me about 2 weeks later . The man was very tearful and gave me a big hug. We just embraced for a while, and he said how thankful he was. He brought me a bottle of wine, which I thought was really nice. It really was strange that I happened to be looking out the window at that moment. I don't know if it was just a coincidence. The man told me he believed God had put somebody there at the right place at the right time to save his life. I just felt very fortunate to have been able to help him. I never saw him again.
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