Hero: Brain Surgeon Walks 6 Miles Through Storm To Save Patient

Dr. Zenko Hrynkiw said any good doctor would do what he did.

As the storm rolled over Birmingham on Tuesday, Hrynkiw was at one hospital — Brookwood Medical Center — when he got word that a patient at Trinity Medical Center had taken a turn for the worse, needed surgery as soon as possible and that no other surgeon there could do it.

Driving wasn’t an option because of the snow and ice. Emergency personnel were busy. So getting a lift didn’t seem to be likely either. The patient had a “90 percent chance of dying” without the operation, Hrynkiw says.

By: Cheston Catalano

Cheston Catalano is a Kentucky-based journalist whose work has been featured in the Chattanooga Times Free Press and the Clarksville Leaf Chronicle. He is a long-time contributor to Liberaland.