WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (Press Release) — Dr. Yoram Weiss, Hadassah Medical Center’s CEO, saved a fellow passenger experiencing a heart attack last night while en route from Israel to the United States on Hadassah business.
Weiss administered emergency care, providing oxygen and medication, and instructed the crew to divert the flight for an emergency landing in Athens so the patient could be transferred to a local hospital for further treatment and monitoring.
The flight then continued to Miami. Weiss is attending Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America’s winter meeting in West Palm Beach.
“I did what any doctor would do in such a situation,” said Weiss, a specialist in critical care and anesthesia. “We are doctors at all times, day and night, inside and outside the hospital. The instinct to save lives is embedded in us – even between heaven and earth.”
*
Preceding provided by Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America.