Muskogee physician dies due to COVID-19 complications
Dec 21, 2020 Colleagues, friends and family members remembered Dr. Yee Se Ong as a "well-respected" man who "gave his life" caring for his patients in Muskogee and other parts of rural Oklahoma. Ong, 76, who became the first cardiologist to establish a practice in Muskogee when he moved here in July 1979, died early Monday due to complications related to COVID-19. A database compiled by the Guardian and Kaiser Health News indicates Ong could become the second Muskogee physician to die of the disease while battling the novel coronavirus â Dr. John Robert Oglesbee, 80, died of COVID...