Hero Doc Saves Patient Despite Heart Attack
Updated : Mar 24, 2009
An Italian surgeon finished a brain operation on a patient - despite suffering a heart attack.
Doctor Claudio Vitale, 59, realised his patient would never recover if he stopped the op to seek treatment for himself so he carried on operating for 30 minutes at Cardarelli hospital, Naples, until his patient was out of trouble.
Now both the surgeon and his patient are recovering in the hospital's intensive care unit.
"I knew I couldn't leave the surgery then. I'm not really a hero, I just did my job," said Dr Vitale.
VeryHappyPig says what a doctor, I‘m going to that surgeon if I ever need an operation!
