LIFE SAVER

In Salt Lake City, Utah, a dentist was horrified to discover that a patient had died in the chair while he was giving him a filling. Worried about the consequences to his business, the dentist lifted the man over his shoulder, carried him downstairs and left him in the toilet. Ten minutes later, the dentist was stunned to see the man walk into his surgery complaining about a headache. It turned out that the bumping motion of carrying the man down the stairs had been the equivalent of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the dentist had inadvertently revived the man.

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