HOW A DOCTOR AND PARAMEDIC SAVED EACH OTHER’S
LIFE 30 YEARS APART
When Chris Trokey was born in 1986, he weighed just 3.2 pounds. Doctors at his Southern California hospital gave him a 50-50 chance of long-term survival. For one of those doctors, that just wasn’t good enough. The pediatrician who worked through the
night to save Trokey’s life had no way of knowing that work was an investment in his own long-term survival.
Almost 30 years to the day that Dr. Michael Shannon saved Chris Trokey, Trokey, who became a paramedic, pulled Shannon from a burning vehicle after a catastrophic accident.
When Trokey was born, Shannon had been a pediatrician for almost a decade. He became a doctor and began his practice in 1973 because he had spent much of his childhood in doctor’s offices, suffering from
ailments such as asthma, a hernia, and appendicitis...read more
