A doctor came to the rescue to do emergency brain surgery during a snowstorm from six miles away Tuesday NBC News and the Associate Press reported Thursday.
"It really wasn't that big of a deal," Dr. Zenko Hrynkiw of Brookwood Medical Center told NBC News about his trek to Trinity Medical Center, where he is the only brain surgeon on staff. "I walk a lot, so it wasn't that big of a deal," Hrynkiw told NBC News.
Hrynkiw paced to the scene after a snowstorm prevented him from going any long distances by car NBC News reported.
Hrynkiw and nurse staff were able to communicate and coordinate despite the treacherous conditions NBC News reported.
"The cell service was bad so we were fading in and out," Steve Davis, a nurse at the hospital's neuro intensive care unit at Trinity told NBC News. "At one point, I heard him say, 'I'm walking," Davis told NBC News.
"He finally called me and said, 'Where's the patient? What's the status?'" Davis told NBC News. "He spoke to the family and went off to surgery. This just speaks volumes to the dedication of the man. When I saw him, all I could say is 'you are a good man," NBC News reported.
Everything worked out, and the patient had a successful operation.
"Without the surgery, the patient would have most likely died," Davis told NBC News.. "But he is doing well."
Davis informed law enforcement about Hrynkiw's endeavor, but he could not be located as he made the trek NBC News eported.
"When I got out of the doctors' parking lot up the hill, unfortunately there were accidents to the right and accidents to the left," Hrynkiw told NBC News.
A massive snowstorm hit the southern United States this week forcing Alabama to declare a state of emergency for the state's south region, not including Birmingham NBC News reported.
