Kevorkian Helps Treat Cyclist Hit by Car

Jack Kevorkian helped paramedics treat a bicyclist who was hit by a car, but it’s one incident Kevorkian would have preferred to keep a secret, a newspaper reported Friday.

“I wish this wouldn’t get out because you know the kind of jokes that will come,” Kevorkian told the Oakland Press of Pontiac. “They’ll say the guy looked up and thought it was worse than it was.”

The retired pathologist, who has admitted assisting at the suicides of more than 40 terminally ill people, was among a group at the scene of the evening crash Tuesday in West Bloomfield Township when paramedics arrived.

“He came over and advised the paramedics that he had been observing the patient, and rendered an opinion,” Fire Department Lt. Joe Slawek said. “He said the patient didn’t lose consciousness. This was very important information.”

The 39-year-old man was taken to a hospital. Slawek said he didn’t know the man’s name.

Kevorkian said the man may have suffered a fractured skull. But were it up to Kevorkian, no one would have heard about his deed.

“How did you find out?” Kevorkian asked a reporter. “It’s not a story.”