Hero of the Year 2007

Our Everyday Heroes risk their own lives to help people in trouble. Learn about the people who touched us the most this past year and find out who was named our 2007 Hero of the Year.
Everyday Hero: Doctor on Call
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"Call 911 and get me a sharp knife," Dr. Rob Boll yelled. He’d just sat down at his church’s annual dinner when an elderly woman began choking on a piece of turkey. Her family tried the Heimlich and failed. He tried too. The woman was turning blue. That’s when the family practitioner asked for the knife—and out of nowhere, one of the diners produced a switchblade. Boll had never performed a tracheotomy, but he didn’t hesitate.

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those who have qualities of a HERO, never worry what would be the outcome of any such incident but they would rather work overtime to help the victims of any kind of disasters but the sorry picture of the story is that such people are often misuderstood ,misguided and mistreated by those who are helped as a human being

By rajeev56, on 08/27/2008

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