"It's a bird… it's a plane… it's an ER doctor""One of the man's friends was crouching next to him and he took one look at me in my Superman costume and was telling me to go away," Dr Cheok said.
"He relaxed a bit when my friend told him we really were emergency doctors."
Together with the injured man's friend, they stemmed the bleeding to the victim's forehead and kept him stable until an ambulance arrived.
A swelling crowd of bewildered passers-by thought the incident was a set-up.
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Dec 9, 2011
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Medical doctor Heng Khuen Cheok saw a pedestrian hit by a car in Melbourne, Australia on Saturday. He rushed to help but was initially rebuffed. Why? Because he was dressed as Superman -- part of his bachelor party hijinks that evening.
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I can see why it’d be hard to take a guy dressed as Superman seriously in an emergency but on the other hand, it really makes sense that Superman should be a doctor; the savings on X-rays would be enormous!
“You saved me Superman!”
“Yes Lois, and you should really get a biopsy on your left breast.”
Adam West once witnessed a homicidal maniac stab someone on the beach next to him. No one would listen to him. “Come on, give the Batman stuff a rest guy!”
A good documentary came out this year called “Superheroes” about real life people who dress in costumes and help people on the streets. Also see Xeni Jardin’s post about real life superheroes in Seattle. http://boingboing.net/2011/01/04/real-life-league-of.html
I have a suspicion that this doctor has probably saved a lot more more lives in his ER duds than Phoenix Jones ever did in that body armor. But everybody has to play their strengths, I guess.
Good thing he wasn’t dressed as a villain or they never would have let him help.
“A swelling crowd of bewildered passers-by thought the incident was a set-up.”
You know, I probably would, too. I’m glad this was both a true story and it ended well.
At least it wasn’t a bewildered crowd of swelling passers-by. Because… y’know… that’d just be weird.
If he was the real Superman, he would have saved the guy BEFORE he got hit. The friend was just unhappy that he was late.
He got lucky it wasnt God Man who was standing around.
He wouldn’t have been rebuffed initially if he was dressed like Lex Luthor.