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From: frye@cuuxb.UUCP (frye)
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Subject: John Gurian's explanation of MVP.
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Date: Wed, 22-Jan-86 13:20:48 EST
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Well, that'd explain what happened to a local firechief a
couple of years ago. He had an old school bus he was con-
verting into a camper. He fell of a fender and ended up in
the hospital. The folks there figured he had a infection
in the mitral valve and it burst open. That would have
dumped all kinds of nasty things into his system. I do
believe he was at the dentist's office some time before
his accident. He never did recover. The problem cost the
community a fine fire chief and his family a fine father
and husband. I must conclude that he was totally unaware
that he had MVP. Otherwise, his condition would have been
known by his doctor. I doubt he would have developed the 
infection if he and the good doctor were forearmed. The guy
always ran around like a kid prior to his accident.

Does this kind of thing happen very often? You'd think a
fire chief who'd been through quite a bit of paramedic
training (he had) would know enough to look into something
abnormal. He must just not have had any clue there was any-
thing even close to wrong.

Reagrds,
Tom Frye