Ronn cooney biography of martin
Ron Cooney..
Martin Couney
The edgy young man with the hatbox wanted to see Dr. Couney—a personal matter, he said. The doctor assumed he had something to sell and sent him away. The man took his hatbox and left to spend hours wandering amid the dancing elephants, scenic railways, and carnival din of Coney Island.
At last he reappeared; could Dr. Couney see him now? This time Couney said yes. The man opened the hatbox. Inside was a premature baby, tiny and red and struggling for breath.
Dr. Martin A. Couney knew just what to do; in fact, he knew more about “preemies” than anyone else in the United States.
Ron passed away peacefully just shy of his 91st birthday.
He was the first American to offer specialized treatment for them and could boast, toward the end of his career, that out of 8,000 in his care, 6,500 survived. “I can’t save all the babies,” he said, “but the percentage of loss is not large, and every parent knows I took good care of his baby until God took its soul.
I never had a complaint or an investigation.”
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