Heart patient ditches cardiac unit to catch Duck basketball game.Byline: Mark Baker The Register-Guard Who is "Mr. Duck Fan"? And where did he go? Apparently back to his bed at Sacred Heart The Sacred Heart is a religious devotion to Jesus' physical heart as the representation of the divine love for humanity This devotion is predominantly used in the Roman Catholic Church and also used in the Anglican Church. Medical Center's Progressive Cardiac Unit. For a couple of days, anyway. Paul and Lori Reader, owners of Pegasus Pizza on East 14th Avenue in Eugene, could not believe what they were hearing Saturday from folks sitting at the table closest to the big-screen TV as the Oregon men's basketball team rallied to win, 77-74, in overtime at Washington State: One of them was a coronary coronary /cor·o·nary/ (kor´o-nar?e) encircling like a crown; applied to vessels, ligaments, etc., especially to the arteries of the heart, and to pathologic involvement of them. cor·o·nar·y adj. patient who left the hospital against the wishes of doctors and nurses. That would explain the "hospital pants" he wore with his Duck sweat shirt and cap. And the medical bracelet. And the nurse taking his pulse, temperature and blood pressure. What some Duck fans won't do during this run by the ninth-ranked Ducks, who face No. 5 UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. today. "Of all the games," Paul Reader said Wednesday, sitting at the table where the middle-aged Mr. Duck Fan, the name Reader's given him because he never caught the man's name, sat. "To have it be that much of a cliffhanger cliff·hang·er n. 1. A melodramatic serial in which each episode ends in suspense. 2. A suspenseful situation occurring at the end of a chapter, scene, or episode. 3. and you've got the cardiac guy coming in. But the calmest person in the place was that guy." Andrea Ash, a PeaceHealth spokeswoman, confirmed that the patient left the cardiac unit with the nurse, who she said was off-shift. "We don't have Fox Sports here," she said, referring to the cable channel the game was on. The hospital declined to divulge the man's name, citing patient confidentiality patient confidentiality Medical practice A Pt's right to privacy and freedom from public dissemination of information that the Pt regards as being of a personal nature. See HIPAA, Medical privacy. . Paul Reader said he spoke earlier this week with the nurse, who said the patient returned to his bed after the game and was discharged Monday. |
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