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Saving One of Our OwnSTORY BY

Melissa McDonald

“I have to save him. I don’t want his daughter to be left with those lasting images,’” Dr. Ali Denktas remembers thinking as he and his team of cardiologists worked feverishly to save a patient, a fellow physician, a fellow father.

Just two hours before, it had been an ordinary June day for Dr. William Daily, assistant professor of anesthesiology at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston. He was at a doctor’s appointment for his 11-year-old daughter, Sophie, when he began to feel that something wasn’t right.

“I can only go on what my family has told me,” Daily says, who recalls nothing of the event. “I made a call to my wife and told her that I had chest pain. She wanted me to head to an emergency center. I told her I would wait until after my daughter’s appointment was over.”

Following the appointment, Daily, 51, drove to Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center. Walking hand-in-hand with his daughter on his way to the emergency center, he collapsed.

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