[NPInfo] A tribute to a medical team and a former colleague

[GRETAOB at aol.com]

I just wanted send out a heartfelt tribute to a former colleague, Mark  
Coyne, RN, one of the men who died yesterday in the tragic medical helicopter  
crash in Wisconsin.  
 
I worked with Mark for 5 years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison  
Hospital.  I was an RN in the Peds ICU at the time (while working on my  first NP 
degree) and Mark was one of the first flight nurses.  When Mark  had down time 
from the flights, he would come to pitch in at the ICU.  He  was funny, kind 
and big-hearted, and a superb RN.  He had worked over 20  years as a flight 
nurse; his passion was flying.
 
Although I did not personally know them, the other 2 people killed in the  
crash were a surgeon/med flight doc, and the very experienced pilot.  
 
So, for Mark and all the other med flight people the world over, thank you  
for a job well done!
 
Greta



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