Surgeon rides child's bike to get through traffic nightmare for surgery
08-26-12, 01:23 PM
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Surgeon rides child's bike to get through traffic nightmare for surgery
08-26-12, 02:45 PM
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Excellent Story! Jens would approve 
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08-26-12, 05:35 PM
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Cute story, but dramatized a bit for TV.
She wasn't rushing in for an emergency surgery.
She wasn't rushing in for an emergency surgery.
08-26-12, 07:28 PM
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Haha I used to live there, my ex told me about the horrible traffic that day, said all the streets were pretty much a parking lot. Never expected this though! Great story!
08-26-12, 10:14 PM
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That story just seems like a lame cry for attention. She could probably have ran to the hospital faster than going the few blocks, "testing" the stupid bike, then riding it. Better to get in the paper for being a good surgeon. Let's hope for her patients' sakes that she makes better decisions in the OR.
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they misspelled pedalled...
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08-26-12, 11:51 PM
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I'm no doctor, but it seems a bit sketchy health-wise to be wearing scrubs that you have been wearing in contaminated places and cycling in. Hopefully she changed to more sterile clothes.
08-27-12, 12:14 AM
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08-27-12, 12:47 AM
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Logically you would think she would and that it would be standard procedure to do so by a hospital or surgery center. I just don't understand why she would have scrubs at home in the first place. It's pretty common to see nurses and doctors in scrubs around Salem headed to work, just seems like an odd way to travel if you'd need to change anyways.
08-27-12, 07:30 AM
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My thoughts exactly. She pulled a bike onto the highway, which is illegal in most areas, gave some "lame" excuse about a surgery, but didn't get a ride because it wasn't important enough to be there quick...just enough to ride a kids bike down the highway.
This story smacks of BS.
This story smacks of BS.
09-03-12, 04:35 PM
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My thoughts exactly. She pulled a bike onto the highway, which is illegal in most areas, gave some "lame" excuse about a surgery, but didn't get a ride because it wasn't important enough to be there quick...just enough to ride a kids bike down the highway.
This story smacks of BS.
This story smacks of BS.
