{"id":13822,"date":"2010-06-17T16:29:33","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T20:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=13822"},"modified":"2019-05-28T15:53:14","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T19:53:14","slug":"ucf-med-student-in-haiti-we-just-saved-a-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-med-student-in-haiti-we-just-saved-a-life\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF Med Student in Haiti: ‘We Just Saved a Life’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Associated Press reported on a University of Central Florida medical student’s efforts to help earthquake victims in Haiti. Anika Mirick is a first-year student recently on a one-week stay at a tent hospital in Port-au-Prince, the island nation’s capital. She helped save the life of a 20-year-old man who would have died from leukemia.<\/p>\n

“Soon, Thermosey will be back home as well. He can thank Anika Mirick for that.<\/em><\/p>\n

Mirick is a first-year medical student from the University of Central Florida, who just finished her one-week stay at the tent hospital. Thermosey was one of her patients.<\/em><\/p>\n

‘I was crying every day,’ Mirick said.<\/em><\/p>\n

Desperate to find a way to save him, Mirick made calls and pleaded with doctors in Orlando, Fla. to save his life. They agreed without hesitation. And within one day, Thermosey had his 30-day visa allowing him to enter the U.S., a minor miracle in itself.<\/em><\/p>\n

When that plane was leaving, Mirick was the person Thermosey thanked first, extending his hand, intravenous tubes protruding from it.<\/em><\/p>\n

‘He will survive,’ Mirick said. ‘We just saved a life.'”<\/em><\/p>\n

Learn more about what UCF is doing to continue helping Haiti and learn how you can get involved at International Medical Outreach<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Associated Press reported on a University of Central Florida medical student’s efforts to help earthquake victims in Haiti. Anika Mirick is a first-year student recently on a one-week stay at a tent hospital in Port-au-Prince, the island nation’s capital. 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