Hero doctor canoes through flood to perform emergency surgery: “I thought if I can do it I certainly should” https://t.co/jmZgLFANFI
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Doctor Gets to Emergency Surgery by Canoeing through Floodwaters
Houston-area doctor Stephen Kimmel left his own flooded home and waded and canoed through the floodwaters with help from volunteer firefighters to get to a hospital to perform an emergency surgery on a 16-year-old boy. Kimmel reached the hospital after walking the last mile in waist-high water. The patient and his mother said that they didn’t even realize at first that Kimmel was the doctor because he had just arrived at the hospital and wasn’t wearing medical attire. CNN interviewed both Kimmel and the patient the day after the surgery.