Friday, December 11, 2009
Nick Gattermeyer (in cap), with West Chester Police Chief Erik Niehaus, mother Theresa Ruhl, and brother Jamie Ruhl. Photo by Cindy Starr/Mayfield Clinic.
As a doctor who takes care of critically ill patients in the Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit at University Hospital, Lori Shutter, MD, often waits many months to hear a patient say thank you. Sometimes, patients never recover sufficiently to utter the words at all.
Today, the Director of Neurocritical Care at the UC Neuroscience Institute heard the heartfelt “thank you” in practically record time when West Chester Police Officer Nicholas Gattermeyer, 25, was discharged from Drake Center, only two and a half weeks after suffering a traumatic brain injury.