<VV> Re Convention List

[Bill Hubbell]

Thanks for providing me with the details.  At last I have closure on this.

Bill Hubbell

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "kovacsmj" <kovacsmj@sbcglobal.net>
To: "'Bill Hubbell'" <whubbell@umich.edu>
Cc: <virtualvairs@corvair.org>
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 5:36 PM
Subject: RE: <VV> Re Convention List


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