Off-Duty Doctors Save Man Having Heart Attack On Minnesota Bike Trail

A Minnesota man got lucky when off-duty doctors happened to be biking on the same trail he was on as he had a heart attack.

According to KTTC, Bert Robb and his girlfriend Dawn Alger were riding bikes along the Douglas Trail. When they got to Rochester, Robb began to have some chest pain. Alger said they were just about a mile from being done when Robb's chest pain began.

"He mentioned he had chest pain," Alger told KTTC. Then Robb fell onto the ground.

Alger had told Robb earlier that she was tired, so she thought he was joking when he started to complain about the pain, but he wasn't. Alger called 911 and as she was on the phone with the emergency operator, three bikers rode up and started doing CPR on Robb.

To Alger's surprise, all three of the bikers were doctors. "The 911 operator goes 'make sure they are doing, one, two, three, the counts' and the one gentleman goes, 'we are all physicians,'"Alger stated.

After doing CPR, the doctors felt a pulse, and Robb was taken to Mayo St. Mary's to be treated.

"I call them my angels. Without them, he would not have survived," Alger added.