Timmins doctor who treats the patient for a heart attack has a heart attack

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The incident took place last November, but Dad shared the news this month In a statement To help advertise as a heart month of February. Canada’s public health agency It says this is a time To raise awareness about the importance of heart health and focus on what we can do to improve our heart health.

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Dr. Chris Lorito said he was experiencing chest pain and other symptoms for months while running. It was so bad that he would sometimes scream to work in pain. Loretto approached his own family doctor and claims to have acid reflux, but the prescribed drugs did not help.

Then, on the night of November 12, while playing hockey, the pain came and his shoulders lasted. The next morning, Lorretto was at work and helped someone with a heart attack. He then spoke to the man’s wife, and learned that he was in the same medicine for acid reflex.

“His story is my story,” Lorito later said.

But he is not yet firm. Fellow employees forced him to permit him to perform blood work and an EKG, which confirmed that he too had a heart attack. (An EKG or Electro Cardiogram The heart records electrical signals and can help detect heart attacks and irregular heartbeats.)

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After being treated at Timmins, both Lorito and his patient were transferred to health science in Sattbari, Central Center for the Region. They ended up in the rooms across the hall, and the patient’s wife visited the two.

“He said: ‘Thank you for saving my husband’s life,’ he remembered.” I said: ‘No, thank you for saving my life. “

Loretto is on medical leave, the hospital said. He began his heart rehabilitation after being shifted to St. Michael Hospital in Toronto for additional practices involved in adding stents on his arteries.

Lorito said that when the pain continued during the exercise last summer, Lorito said he must have gone to his family doctor, and, like many who dedicated to care for others, he was not good to take his own health needs seriously.

“We are taking care of others and stinking in taking care of ourselves,” he said.

The advice he gave to the patients is at the heart of the heart or any other time: “Do what I say, not what I am doing.” If the symptoms continue, take them seriously.

The hospital notes that heart attack and cardiovascular disease in Canada is the second main cause.

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