| What's up doc. She absolutely did make the diagnosis. She suspected it based on my pedal pulses, and other things, confirmed it via a CT scan, and got the surgery scheduled. It was like when the Wolf showed up in Pulp Fiction. Now the truth is she wasn't a random nurse. She is an NP named Nathania Francis and she has some feeding monitoring patent and her own startup in the medical space (this is her bio on her company's staff page: http://www.gnftechnologies.com/gnf-management.php). No way I wasn't googling the person who saved my life. The surgeon that night, Gustave Pogo, was great too. Turns out everyone in the NY/LI area knows of him. But the three doctors who walked in, looked at me, and walked out, they didn't save my life. And this includes at least one specialist from the cardio-thoracic unit. I am/was a fireman with the FDNY (past tense due to this surgery...), so have encountered a lot of emergency medicine in real life. My own medical training is limited (I always joke that "I know enough to watch someone die"), but I can definitely recognize when someone is going through the steps of diagnosing a problem. |