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a dive instructor.. .she’s a healthy girl.
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you know.
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a fulltime Emergency Room registered nurse
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for no apparent reason got acute pulmonary embolism.
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And she was in the hospital..
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she almost died.
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Det.
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Sudler:
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Okay.
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Minkoff:
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‘She went home and then I worked Saturday night and
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I heard that she was back in Intensive Care.
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.she’d
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gotten another episode of pulmonary embolism. No
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risk factors really. She smokes a little bit but
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she’s.. .I mean.. .she’s basically athletic. .‘.you know.
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Det.
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Sudler:
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She survived too.
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Minkoff:
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This girl?
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Det.
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Sudler:
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Yeah.
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Minkoff:
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Yeah.
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Det.
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Sudler:
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I.. .1 thought they were fatal pretty much.
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Minkoff:
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Well, it just depends on how big the clot is and
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how quick you get em.
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Det.
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Sudler:
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Okay.
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Minkoff:
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So she knew...I mean.. .she came to the Emergency
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Room. She.
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like. .she.. .she was
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really sick: And she got an experimental drug for
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pulmonary emboli just because she works there and
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we know her and there wasn’t anything else to do.
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And it worked and then she recovered. Uh.
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and she
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doesn’t even have known vein dis.
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leg disease.
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Det.
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Sudler:
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Uh Huh.
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Minkoff:
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So there are these cases which are.. .who knows why...
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you know.
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Det.
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Sudler:
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How would you treat that.. .with a blood thinning
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drug or something?
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Minkoff:
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Yeah. The treatment’s lousy. With big pulmonary
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