Likewise, at Henry Ford hospitals, fewer patients were coming to the emergency department with heart attacks, said Dr. Samer Kazziha, chief of the cardiovascular department at Henry Ford Macomb. By the time they got to the hospital, it was too late and the damage was done, he said.
“We were wondering what was happening, and why we weren’t seeing them,” Kazziha said. The state data released Thursday, he said, “shows the patients who weren’t presenting were dying at home.
“I have been in practice for more than 35 years as a cardiologist, and I have never experienced anything like this,” he said. “It was like the stock market at that time. It just stopped.”
