Overview
- An emergency room physician began choking on a chicken sandwich in the Loyola University Medical Center cafeteria in Maywood, Illinois.
- Cashier Keztly Angel recognized the universal choking sign and performed the Heimlich maneuver.
- The intervention dislodged the obstruction and saved Dr. Joan Dimopoulos during her lunch break.
- The two reunited at a Monday ceremony at Loyola where Dimopoulos presented Angel with flowers and expressed her gratitude.
- Dimopoulos urged others to learn the Heimlich maneuver, and Angel noted she learned it at Proviso East High School and had never used it before.