Good Samaritan Laser Vision Surgeon Seeks Reunion With Traveler He Treated On Lufthansa Flight To Nyc
New York City, New York (PRWEB) December 24, 2014 -- This carried into residency, when invariably the ruptured globe by a pick axe the patient's girlfriend was "fooling around with" (you cannot make this stuff up) would come in when Dr Chynn was on duty. While Dr Chynn sometimes questioned his fate, he was the first to admit that he got a better surgical experience than the majority of his peers. So while the sleep deprivation wasn't all that enjoyable, the breadth of experience gained was.
Even after training, this “cloud” followed Dr Chynn and manifested itself in some of the most unlikely medical emergencies imaginable. This happened so often that, Dr Chynn, a man of science without a superstitious bone in his body, began to question whether he was being subjected to some sort of cosmic assignment. For example, Dr Chynn has been called into medical action at the NYC Ballet, the Metropolitan Opera, NYU Alumni function, 5 Borough Bike Tour and 9/11 when he was the first MD at Ground Zero. The range of ailments Dr Chynn treated during these episodes included heart attacks, strokes and fainting.
So these days, instead of doing the typical "look around and see if some other MD will respond 1st" (that all doctors sometimes do), Dr Chynn just sighs, bites the bullet and volunteers despite his suspicions that the man in row 33 with his head down is in all likelihood a fellow doctor!
In this most recent and interesting episode, Dr Chynn treated a single 32 year old white female in acute distress. The patient works for Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt currently, having previously worked in NYC for Lazardno.
In order to narrow the search, it is important to give the medical history of the woman in question to tighten the net. The traveler in question had no prior surgical history except appendectomy. The patient's only recent travel history was the flight in question from Germany to NYC. The patient presented herself with severe abdominal pain that was diffuse, not well-localized, no rebound tenderness and graded 8 out of 10 in severity. She hadn't eaten anything unusual recently, but did "eat twice on the day when she usually only ate once a day" and reported recent major weight loss that was not intentional, but not of unknown etiology either (reporting loss of appetite due to recent emotional distress)
Dr Chynn helped the mystery traveler lie down in the aisle, took vital signs which showed a slightly elevated but strong pulse and elevated temperature, told the stewardess she should not have given the patient 800mg of ibuprofen immediately without any exam in case she had a bleeding peptic ulcer and asked her to hydrate because she had some tachycardia and diaphoresis
When asked if there was anything wrong with the woman in question's heart, to rule out a clot, she replied "it's badly broken" with a wry smile, which prompted Dr Chynn to inquire further and find out the patient had recently broken up with her boyfriend.
Despite Dr Chynn's actions, the woman felt so bad, she didn't think she could last the other 4 hours of the flight so to reassure the understandably worried passenger, Dr Chynn stayed with her on and off for most of the flight, explaining that nothing life threatening was going on since the vital signs had normalized and pledged to bring her to the ER when upon arrival. Unfortunately, upon landing, doctor and patient got separated as they let the woman "deplane" first with a wheelchair, so by the time Dr Chynn got off, the patient was gone.
Having promised to help the woman in question get to an ER and having had a very strong connection with her throughout the ordeal, Dr Chynn would like nothing more than to go out for a drink and see how everything went (and see if his presumptive diagnosis of a gallbladder attack was correct). Considering the last patient Dr Chynn treated on a flight before this vomited all over him, he'd like this story to have a happier ending
While Dr Chynn cannot remember the patient's exact name, he knows the patient is blonde and recalls some sort of central European name like Beate. Dr Chynn is Asian-American, born in NYC, 5'6", 135 lb, and told you he lived in the West Village.
Please contact Dr Chynn to let him know how you're doing and so you can become friends, if not in person, then at least "pen pals".
If anyone reads this post and can help put them in touch, Dr Chynn would be very appreciative, and will donate $100 to the charity of your choice or give you $1,000 off a non-invasive LASEK procedure of your own!
You can reach Emil W. Chynn trough his office Park Avenue LASEK - "NY's Only Non-Invasive Center-That's Why We're Safest!"
at (212) 741-8628 or [email protected]
Mark Callanan, Director of Communications, Park Avenue SafeSight, http://www.parkavenuesafesight.com, +1 508-901-3669, [email protected]
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