Calif doctor saves choking diner with pocket knife
A noted California doctor is being called a hero after he performed an emergency life-saving tracheotomy on a community leader who was choking on a piece of meat.
The dramatic procedure occurred Monday at The Mark restaurant in downtown Bakersfield when Kern Community College District board trustee Pauline Larwood began choking on her food at dinner, the Bakersfield Californian (http://bit.ly/16pAFWU) reported Tuesday.
Some of the nation's top doctors and other area leaders also were in the restaurant in town for a symposium on valley fever.
Assemblywoman Shannon Grove, R-Bakersfield, said she was seated at a table with Larwood and her husband when she started choking. Grove said her husband and state Sen. Jean Fuller, R-Bakersfield, were also at the table....
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