Great story. Physicians are not only knowledgeable, but able to think clearly during a stressful and chaotic moment. Good for Dr. Heimlich!!
Now that’s just wild. I hope he got her going and then broke into an end-zone dance of self-impressed joy, but that’s probably not how it happened. : 
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Thomas Edison also insisted on readling only by candlelight.
Ha! Bravo Dr. Heimlich! Age, no bar to heroics…
My wonderful kid is alive today thanks to this man. When he was much younger (my kid, that is) he was choking on a piece of ravioli (a raviolum?)…I got to him in time, performed the Heimlich maneuver, the pasta was ejected and went sailing in a majestic arc across the room, and the rest is history. Thank you, Dr. Heimlich!
Wow, that’s kinda crazy that millions of other people have used this maneuver but he never has?
That´s something he can cross off his bucket list.
What a great story.
Once in a while a small positive story like this goes a long way. Helps restore some appreciation for basic humanity.
Sadly, he spiked her in the endzone.
Dr. Heimlich was a convocation speaker when I was in college. He was very smart and funny. In addition to discussing how he developed the maneuver, he gave a wry recounting of the long, long battle to get the Red Cross to finally acknowledge that the back blows it had been teaching in its first aid classes since forever were counterproductive and adopt his maneuver.
When I took their course in 1981, they were still teaching back blows first and then Heimlich only if (meaning when) the back blows didn’t work. Pure Not Invented Here syndrome.
This ranks up there with the time I got to see Nehru wearing a Nehru jacket.
Hurray for Dr. Heimlich!
I cannot count the number of ways this story pleases me 
Harrowing Heroism: Heimlich Heimlichs Hamburger
Wow, just wow.
I can read that two ways…
CINCINNATI (AP) — The 96-year-old Cincinnati surgeon credited with developing his namesake Heimlich maneuver recently used the emergency technique for the first time himself to save a woman choking on food at his senior living center.
I thought it was the Time-Life remover.
Use the Me Maneuver!
Hoocha Hoocha Hoocha…lobster.
(Eddie Izzard riffing on Dr Heimlich)
He may have indirectly saved the life of my friend and colleague, Dick. Dick and I were having lunch and suddenly he stopped talking and looked worried. I asked him if he was choking, and he nodded yes. I calmly (where this calm non-panicked behavior came from, I cannot say, since I’m usually driven to distraction by sudden, unexpected bad turns of events) walked around to his side of the table, reached around him (stop giggling, this is serious), and lifted him out of the chair with the Dr. Heimlich’s man�uver, resulting in Dick expelling a chunk of hamburger onto the tablecloth in front of us. After he regained his composure, I calmly walked around to the other side of the table and sat down; neither of us ever spoke a word about it.