The only thing that is important is that we do everything possible for this young woman, Dr Dahman said
Princess Diana.
A young doctor was rushed in to save a “young woman” who turned out to be Princess Diana and ever since he has been filled with contrition for failing to get her heart beating again.
MonSef Dahman a young duty general surgeon at the Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital in Paris was called to the accident and emergency department to treat a “young woman” in the early hours of 31 August 1997.
He was resting in the duty room when he got a call from Bruno Riou, the senior duty anesthetist, telling me to go to the emergency room, Dr Dahman, 56, recalled.
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The case was “particularly serious”, Dr Dahman’s premonition said, since he got the call from a high-level colleague although he wasn’t told it was Lady Diana. The pinch of information was that there had been a serious accident.
Dr Dahman, who was 33 at the time of the incident, arrived moments later at A&E and saw Prof Riou was in the room and personally taking care of the woman on the stretcher, an indication of “special importance”.
He was then informed that the woman was Diana, Princess of Wales.
“It only took that moment for all this unusual activity to become clear to me,” he recalled.
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