A Bike Accident Left This ER Doctor Paralyzed. Now He's Back At Work
Monday mornings are one of the busiest times of the week in the emergency room at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
On one Monday in May, a middle-aged man tells Dr. Daniel Grossman he’s been feeling weak and having heart palpitations.
“They keep telling me my heart’s fine but yet I have no energy, I want to pass out all the time,” the man says, “you know, things are just telling me there’s something wrong with my heart.”
After a few more questions, the doctor recommends some blood work, and pulls open the curtain to head back to the ER.
It’s a typical doctor-patient interaction, but one thing is unusual: Both the patient and the doctor are in wheelchairs — the patient because he’s visiting the emergency room, and the doctor because of a spinal cord injury.
Grossman, 37, lost the use of his legs less than a year ago, and he’s already back at work.
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