Heimlich Goes To Hollywood

Cheat!

Sony Music

True Crime, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Dr Henry Heimlich became a household name after he created the Heimlich maneuver. He had saved American lives, and the public loved him. He was their hero. But then, everything came crashing down. Heimlich was accused of abandoning his ethics in his mission to cure AIDS. As quickly as he had risen to fame, America’s most beloved doctor fell from glory. A Somethin’ Else production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	It's 2005 and journalist Jason Zingerly is going to meet America's most beloved doctor.
0:13.9	He was 85.
0:14.9	His pants were probably pulled up a little bit higher than they might have been when he
0:18.3	was a younger man.
0:19.3	He kind of wore him high.
0:20.6	His eyes.
0:21.6	He had these gray eyes that sort of cliché to say someone has piercing eyes, but when
0:26.4	he looked at you, you really felt it.
0:28.7	Jason had left a few voicemails for the doctor and had been invited to Cincinnati to do
0:33.0	an interview.
0:34.0	It's all this was kind of funny because it was in the Heimlich Institute, which, you
0:38.1	know, if you think about an institute, it sounds very grand and you think it would be
0:41.9	almost like an entire campus, but in actuality, it was just a couple of rooms in an annex
0:48.4	behind the hospital in Cincinnati.
0:50.9	Jason was going to visit this doctor at the Heimlich Institute because this doctor
0:55.5	was actually Dr. Henry Heimlich.
0:58.4	Yeah, the guy responsible for me and a whole lot of other people imagining saving somebody's
1:03.9	life by hugging them from the back and squeezing their stomach.
1:08.0	I remember learning the Heimlich maneuver in school and having to demonstrate it on each
1:12.0	other, thinking this is kind of weirdly intimate.
1:16.2	The man Heimlich was famous the world over for inventing one of modern medicines, most
1:21.0	famous procedures.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Sony Music, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Sony Music and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.