Happy Father's Day

To celebrate my dad and, more importantly, to shame yours, I'm including a recent email exchange concerning one Professor Coffey:

On 6/5/12 10:12 AM, "Mikael Johansson" 
wrote:

>Dear Professor Coffey,

>The patient you took care of on the flight was diagnosed with ST-T
>elevations and an acute myocardial infarction. She was immediately
>transferred to interventional thoracic radiology and had an emergency
>coronary angiography performed. It showed an occlusion and a dilation was
>performed. Her ST-T elevations restituted and she went home without
>symptoms after a few days. According to the senior cardiologist the
>decision to make an emergency landing in Umeå was correct and might have
>saved her life. In Kiruna there is no interventional radiology and in
>Sundsvall or Luleå (other landing options) the thoracic intensive care is
>less advanced.
>
>The cardiologists are very grateful for your early interventions and
>support in the decision to land in Umeå. They send their best regards!
>
>I hope your trip home to Nashville was nice and safe. I appreciated your
>contribution to the conference in Riksgränsen a lot and hop to meet next
>time for the third midnight sun (or polar night maybe) symposia when the
>field probably have advanced a little further.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Mikael Johansson
>
>Mikael Johansson, M.D., Ph.D.
>
>Dept of Oncology, Umeå University
>

 

>No sweat. You're welcome Sweden.

Regards, 

Dr. Coffey