Honeymooning Chinese doctor runs into wrong kind of heart trouble on flight from Germany
Jiangsu medic Chen Shi draws on his professional training on way home with his new bride
A honeymoon turned into a busman’s holiday for one doctor on a flight back from Germany to China late last week.
Chen Shi, a 31-year-old resident doctor at Jiangsu Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Nanjing, sprang into action when a woman in her 70s started having breathing difficulties three hours into the 10-hour Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt to Nanjing on Thursday, news portal Longhoo.net reported on Sunday.
Chen was heading home with his wife Li Lin, a doctor training at the same hospital, after a holiday in Europe to celebrate their marriage, the report said.
After learning the woman had rheumatic heart disease, Chen checked her pulse and blood pressure, and connected her to an oxygen tank.
