Presbyterian Hospital

We continued for the next few weeks, next few months, seeing many, many doctors.

We finally went to Columbia Presbyterian in New York to a renowned pediatric neurologist.

And the future was very grave.

At that point, the prognosis and the diagnosis was one of very significant brain dysfunction.

His parents then drove him here to New York Presbyterian Hospital in Queens, in Flushing, about three miles from his school.

Doctors here diagnosed him with a rare stroke.

He was later transferred to New York Presbyterian Medical Center in Washington Heights, where he was treated for several days.

A new report, meanwhile, by the New York City Comptroller finds an alarming rise in ambulance response times.

Over the past decade, the Comptroller says life-threatening emergency response times have increased by 41%, by nearly four minutes.

First, because this coming October 19th, Dick will be turning 86 years old, and I want you to know just how amazing and funny he still is.

But also, our meeting on Zoom was a very special day for me, not just because I got to spend time with the Dick DiBartolo, the madman who has made me laugh throughout my entire life, But because what I hadn't told Dick until that day, and what listeners wouldn't know until I spilled the beans a year later, is that this episode was recorded while I was a patient at New York Presbyterian Columbia Hospital, recovering from my second heart transplant.

So the sound on my end, coming from the cardiac care unit, left a lot to be desired, which I hope I was able to improve a little bit here, and I trimmed a few things too.

I am so happy to be able to share this conversation with you.

Dr. Oz was at, you know, if you're from around here, you know this.

Dr. Oz was an incredible cardiothoracic surgeon at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, which is one of the best cardiac care centers in the country.

He actually from doctors who I know who worked with him said that he was a genius.

He was an incredible doctor for Dr. Oz to go from a guy who took a note to first, you know, harm and to care for patients and apparently did it very well.