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This Day in Medicine - May 22nd

By mementomori on May 22, 2007.

San Diego, 1932 - Dr. Philip J. Hooley, a popular otolaryngologist, is enjoying a round of Saturday afternoon golf with friends when he is approached by a club valet with an urgent message. Little William Mackapease, six years old and heir to the Mackapease frozen food fortune, has swallowed a chicken bone. Without hesitation Dr. Hooley makes his apologies and jumps in a waiting cart which takes him straight to his Cadillac.

Accompanied by an increasing number of police motorcycles, Hooley rushes to the Emergency Room of Our Lady of Perpetual Motion Hospital, where he finds the lad in the arms of several nurses, in obvious distress. The doctor quickly asks for a laryngoscope and curved forceps. With skill and precision he removes the lodged bone from William's hypopharynx to the sounds of applause from the assembled team.

Thus Dr. Philip J. Hooley entered the history books on that day in May as the first physician to perform an emergency foreign body removal while wearing the following outfit:

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DAMN. I was so in a green mood this morning, and this has just made me feel awful. I mean, what are the odds of looking at a blog to find someone wearing the EXACT same outfit?

I just CAN'T face the world today, darling. Too tragic!

Dr Hooley or Dr. Hooey? You decide.

Great story.

Nice try, but two things gave this away as fiction...

First, May 22, 1932 was a Sunday, not a Saturday.

Second, of course, is that almost all of my fellow otolaryngologists would have at least finished out the hole.

Thanks for a great image!

Fiction or not that made me chuckle. My buddy just looked at me all weird.