Before official first responders arrived at the scene of the Highland Park parade shooting last 4th of July, off-duty doctors at the festivities administered emergency first aid to their neighbors.
Before first responders could get to Highland Park July 4 parade shooting, several off-duty doctors helped save their neighbors by administering emergency first aid.The gunfire that rained down on the Highland Park July 4 parade produced the kinds of wounds typically seen on a battlefield. But before official first responders arrived, everyday citizens administered emergency first aid to their neighbors.
Dr. Loren Schechter, a Highland Park resident and plastic surgeon specializing in gender-affirming surgery at Rush University medical Center, and Dr. Wendy Binstock Rush, a Highland Park resident and anesthesiologist affiliated with several Chicago area hospital including University of Chicago Medical Center and Lurie Children's hospital, were both there that day. Both sat down with ABC7 Investigative Reporter Chuck Goudie to share their memories of that fateful day.
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