Dr. Patrick Connell; Trauma Physician
Dr. Patrick Connell, 48, a trauma physician who helped rescue people from the double-deck freeway that collapsed in Oakland in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Connell was one of several doctors who risked their lives extricating people trapped in the freeway rubble when the quake ravaged the San Francisco Bay Area. Born in Montana, Connell attended Creighton University in Omaha and was a Vietnam veteran. He worked in family and emergency medicine in the late 1970s and early ‘80s at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center before moving to Oakland to join the emergency room staff at Highland Hospital in 1984. On Monday in Oakland of asthma.
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