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Jindal may not be a doctor but he plays one in a pinch.

Publication: Modern Healthcare
Publication Date: 21-AUG-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Jindal may not be a doctor but he plays one in a pinch.(Outliers: Asides & Insides)(Bobby Jindal- politician of Louisiana)(Donovan Riley ceo of University of Illinois Hospital )

Article Excerpt
Whoever said we have a do-nothing Congress obviously hasn't met Bobby Jindal.

Jindal, a Louisiana congressman, flew into action last week when his wife, Supriya, unexpectedly went into labor one early morning at their home in Kenner, La. Without missing a beat, the native Louisianan got to play doctor, delivering 8-pound, 2-ounce Slade Ryan Jindal. An ambulance arrived shortly after the baby's arrival. "Everyone is doing great,'' says Trey Williams, a spokesman at the congressman's home office in Metairie.

Supriya had been to the hospital the day before with pains thought to be contractions, Williams says. But doctors told the mother of two that she had time before her third baby would arrive.

Yet around 3:25 a.m., Surpriya-in obvious pain-told her husband that the baby was coming and that there was not enough time to...

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