Rod Linkous, a resident of Seattle, Washington, was on a cruise celebrating his 80th birthday with his wife when he suffered a heart attack the evening before arriving into the George Town cruise port in Grand Cayman.
"This gentleman came to us as an emergency transfer from the cruise ship. He had developed chest pain while on the ship and was transferred to the general hospital. They diagnosed him to have a heart attack and referred him to us for the management," reported Dr. Ravi Kishore, Health City's Chief International Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist.
The doctor explained that emergency angiography was performed to relieve a blockage in his main artery: "We opened up the vessel and put in stents, and he is doing pretty well now." Mr. Linkous showered praise on the facility and the staff's efficiency: "In the (United) States, if an ambulance pulls into a hospital, you never see a doctor until you've been processed inside. When I got here, Dr. Ravi met me. He made me feel at ease with all the experience he had. Less than an hour later, I was in the cath theater, and they were doing an angiogram.
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