My editor balked at this cartoon initially, not because of the somewhat unsavory suggestion that Warren was choking on the cat, but because he feared not enough people would know what the Heimlich maneuver was.
Heimlich invented the protocol because the media started a panic that choking was on the increase, by calling deaths from choking “The Cafe Coronary” giving the impression it was a new thing.
He campaigned for his protocol to become the Red Crosses primary response (replacing back slapping). It worked…
…then he got greedy and started demanding it replace CPR, even though it didn’t work. Then he heard that Malaria could cause the end of Syphilis… And went down to Mexico and started testing the theory on Syphilis patients… Who died.
Then I think he did similar in Africa with aids, refusing his test subjects proper treatment once they were given Malaria, and causing a bunch of deaths there.
Today the Red Cross recommends 5 back slaps and then the Heimlich maneuver (which they’ve renamed “abdominal thrusting”).
Some background on this comic:
Transcript:
Heimlich invented the protocol because the media started a panic that choking was on the increase, by calling deaths from choking “The Cafe Coronary” giving the impression it was a new thing.
He campaigned for his protocol to become the Red Crosses primary response (replacing back slapping). It worked…
…then he got greedy and started demanding it replace CPR, even though it didn’t work. Then he heard that Malaria could cause the end of Syphilis… And went down to Mexico and started testing the theory on Syphilis patients… Who died.
Then I think he did similar in Africa with aids, refusing his test subjects proper treatment once they were given Malaria, and causing a bunch of deaths there.
Today the Red Cross recommends 5 back slaps and then the Heimlich maneuver (which they’ve renamed “abdominal thrusting”).