Originally Posted by surgeonstone

I once operated on a guy with a knife in his heart. Child stabbed him. ER doc called me, this in a country hospital in southern Ohio. I said ship him to the nearest cardiac hospital . He said no way, going down the tubes. So I rushed him up, opened his chest, repaired a 3 cm hole in his right ventricle. closed him up. The hospital treated me like a god for a month. Then back to normal. Interesting thing was that a perforated appendix on one of our typical three hundred pounders was in fact, a far more difficult operation. The patient had a corner car wash I drove by on the way home. He never failed to wave to me.
His son was mentally challenged. Fortunately he left his heart in the right place for me.