Making sure history doesn't repeat itself
“I’m going to save your life.” These were the last words that John Casconi remembered as he was being rushed into the emergency department and informed that he was having a heart attack. John happened to bump into Bill Dillon, MD, the doctor who would find a 99% blockage in the “widow-maker” artery and who would put a stent in his heart, right before he lost consciousness.
John has always known his family has a long history of stroke and heart attack, but it wasn’t until he couldn’t grip his pen during a meeting at work that he found his name added to that list. He had been struggling to catch his breath for the last 24 hours and had credited it to being out of shape until he lost the full mobility of his hand. He called his personal physician and he told him, “If you’re going to have a heart attack, the place to do it is at Baptist Health.”
It has been eight years since John found himself on an operating table, and he truly believes the doctors and staff at Baptist Health saved his life.
"They asked me the right questions, they identified the problem, and they immediately set to work to fix it so I could still be here for my family and so history wouldn’t repeat itself."
The Dawn of a Healthier Tomorrow
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