A paramedic in Australia diagnosed his own heart attack and reportedly drove the ambulance down to the hospital himself.
52-year-old David Watson felt a "sudden onset of crushing chest pain and tingles down both arms" just when he was about to start his workout routine in the small town of Casterton, western Victoria, the reports said.
He recognised the symptoms immediately and checked himself on the electrocardiography (ECG) machine, Watson told 3AW's breakfast program on Tuesday.
"I grabbed the heart monitor from the ambulance, put myself on it and thought: 'Uh oh, that's not right'," he said.
He then reportedly drove the ambulance for around 100 metre, while in pain, to a local hospital around the corner. Watson was then given medicines to clear the blood clot as an immediate measure.
The paramedic was eventually flown to Geelong hospital and was immediately operated on to have a stent put in his artery, according to the Guardian.
Watson said one of the doctors at the hospital told him that he has come close to death in the ambulance station.
"He said: 'It's amazing you're alive' because the clot was in one of my large coronary arteries," Watson said. "The heart attack I've had is a massive heart attack."
