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Dr. Raul Garcia-Rodriguez
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Talk about breaking a leg. How about an execution-style shooting? Or a jump off a tall building?
Three emergency room doctors at Yakima Regional Medical and Cardiac Center are featured in an upcoming documentary on the rigors of their profession at a Level I trauma center in the Bronx, New York.
The Discovery Channel filmed for six weeks in the notoriously busy ER at Saint Barnabas Hospital. The show, "911: The Bronx," starts Thursday.
The stars, er, doctors are John Zambito, Ashwin Shetty and Raul Garcia-Rodriguez.
Garcia came to Yakima last year to serve as assistant dean of postgraduate affairs at the new College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences. It's a part-time gig that he supplements with his ER work. Garcia brought his ER buddies with him, and they will also teach at the college, which opens in August.
In Episode 1, Zambito helps a patient fight for his life after a four-story fall. In Episode 4, Garcia treats a shopkeeper who was shot in the head at point-blank range.
"I treated him and he was lucky enough that the bullet stopped at the skull and didn't penetrate. In my 15 years of ER work, I've never seen that," said the 37-year-old Garcia.
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