Close call for man suffering from flu-like symptoms
Cleatus Burnine was feeling achy and sore like he was coming down with the flu, so he went to see his doctor.
Burnine, of Richmond, Mo., said he didn't think much of it when his doctor told him to go to Ray County Memorial Hospital to get an electrocardiograph or an EKG.
"I go regularly to North Kansas City Hospital to get checked out ever since I had my [heart] stents three years ago," Burnine said.
But within minutes of arriving at the hospital, physicians determined that Burnine was in much more immediate peril.