” When Bev Marcue went to the emergency room with a stroke, she didn’t get a drug to dissolve the blockage in her brain because doctors weren’t sure if it was treatable.
Marcue, from Lancaster, southwest of Madison, couldn’t walk and talk for weeks, and she still struggles with daily life.
Mike Harrigan was driving west on Interstate 94 from Milwaukee when he had a stroke. He went to the nearest hospital — in Watertown, east of Madison — where a stroke specialist at UW Hospital evaluated him by video connection and approved the clot-busting drug.
Harrigan has almost no impairment today.”
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David Wahlberg, Wisconsin State Journal, 27 December 2010
