Surgeon having lunch near Krakow shooting undoubtedly saved officer's life, colleague says

Once the shooting stopped, Pędziwiatr said he took care of the other victims and the apparent perpetrator who needed help, while Wierdak began working on the police officer who was shot in the chest during the gunfight."He, to put it colloquially, stuffed all the bandages into [the police officer's] chest and stuck his hands in," he told Fakt."If not for that, I don't know how things would have turned out, as there was a long wait for the ambulance".Meanwhile, Pędziwiatr said he called John Paul II Hospital where the Department of Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery is located."I insisted they take him there because, in my opinion, he had the best chance of survival there, where there were specialists for precisely this type of injury," he told Fakt.According to local media, Wierdak is a renowned surgeon in Krakow. The University Hospital in Krakow states Pędziwiatr is head of General, Oncological, Metabolic and Emergency Surgery.