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Gene Cabadas was dying, bleeding out from a tear in his aorta.
The clock was ticking on the South Lyon man s life with each heartbeat and minute that passed, as well as each hospital that passed on giving the 85-year-old Cabadas the surgery that could save him.
In all, three hospitals declined to take him.
The fourth proved to be the charm when Dr. Yusuke Terasaki, a Detroit Medical Center cardiothoracic surgeon, answered the call with a yes. With no time to waste, Cabadas was put on a life flight to Harper University Hospital.
“His condo is across the street from the hospital, he could hear the helicopter coming in the dark,” Cabadas recalls. “I landed and was in an unfamiliar hospital with a doctor I’d never heard of before… I thought, ‘Who is this?’”
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One local doctor is making history in the Motor City by becoming the first Black woman to lead the adult sector of the neurosurgery department with the Detroit Medical Center.