14 DAY TRIAL // Dr. Zenko Hrynkiw in Birmingham, Alamaba is now making headlines after the news broke that, earlier this week, he faced a severe snowstorm in order to get to the local Trinity Medical Center and perform live-saving surgery on a patient.
Media reports say that, at the time when a nurse at said medical center called Dr. Zenka Hrynkiw and told him that one of his patients was in dire need of help, the brain surgeon had just finished operating on another person at a hospital that sits at a considerable distance from the Trinity Medical Center.
The doctor responded that he would get back to the Trinity Medical Center as fast as he could. The problem was that, at that time, local roads were blocked as a result of a major snowstorm that had hit the region. Huffington Post reports that, when faced with this situation, Dr. Zenko Hrynkiw asked for help from authorities. However, neither local officers nor staff at the Trinity Medical Center managed to provide transportation for him.
It was at this point that the brain surgeon decided that, since he could not get anywhere by car, he might as well walk. As nurse Steve Davis recollects, “I called him again and he said, ‘I'm not getting anywhere, I'm walking.’”
According to the same source, it took Dr. Zenko Hrynkiw about five hours to walk some 6 miles (9.5 kilometers) through the snowstorm and get to the Trinity Medical Center.
He arrived at his destination at about 12.30 p.m., and went into surgery almost immediately. Talking to the press, nurse Steve Davis said that the surgery was a successful one and that, by Thursday morning, the patient's condition was stable.
“Without the surgery, the patient would have most likely died,” the nurse wished to stress.
Interestingly enough, Dr. Zenki Hrynkiw is having trouble figuring out what all the fuss is about. Thus, the way he sees things, “I'm just doing by job.”