Feels Good: A Life Saving Stranger and A Neurosurgeon

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Friend Show is on. It feels good. Why not
good news? Snapping stories every day on the show, Caitlin.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Go a massive Jason's hold on Okay in Massachusetts, man, thanks,
thank you, nailed it is hoping to find a stranger
who he says saved his life. At the Rolling Stones
concert at Gillette Stadium, Tony Palladino and his wife were
waiting for the rock bands to take the stage on
May thirtieth when he suffered cardiac arrest. I guess he

(00:28):
lost consciousness and the third row while the song start
Me Up was playing, and that was the intro music.
That's when he says, someone rushed over from the first
row began to perform CPR. He said, this woman immediately
sprang into action. She scaled the second row. His wife said,
it happened in split in a split second. First responders
arrived on the scene really quickly, and they kind of
took things over from there. He underwent a double bypass

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surgery at the hospital six days later, but he believes
that his story serves as a reminder, of course, that
CPR training can save lives and he is okay, but
he's hoping to find the kind stranger who saved his life.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Wow. Wow, So a guy who was inspired to become
a neurosurgeon because of the hit TV hospital drama Grey's
Anatomy is now not only a neurosurgeon, but a medical
consultant on Gray's Anatomy, which is cool, right thirty five
years old. His name is Stephen Berg, and he first
watched the show in high school and instantly became a

(01:25):
regular viewer. When he was in his fourth year of
residency at Duke, an announcement was made through the hospital
that the show's producers were recruiting medical consultants to work
on season nineteen. So he applied, he got the job,
and so yeah, now he works on the show and
is working on season twenty one. I guess brainstorming ideas.
He's even appeared as an extra on the show as well.

(01:47):
But that's why he's a doctor, because I'm Meredith Gray.
And then there's a picture on this story. There he
is with Ellen Pompeo hanging out. Dreams come true? Man,
look at that? Is this what you always dreamed of?
I mean?

Speaker 2 (02:00):
New friend?

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Am I am? I friendship