Special Forces doctor awarded for saving lives despite his own injuries following a motorcycle accident
"I'm sorry for bleeding on you, Doc."
By Jared Keller December 30, 2020
By the time Lt. Col. Larry Wyatt came to, he discovered that what was supposed to be an exhilarating afternoon bike ride had gone completely to hell.
It was April 7, 2019, and Wyatt — the 53-year-old director of the U.S. Special Operations Command’s medical clinic — had been traveling along the Pinellas bicycle trail just outside of Tampa, Florida. Wyatt was accompanied by his predecessor at the SOCOM clinic, retired Col. Thomas Wells, and the two of them were crossing a bridge when they saw two motorcycles barreling towards them.
One of the motorcyclists “lost control†of his motorcycle “so that the front end was coming up,†Wyatt recalled. “We were hugging the concrete bridge wall, and there was no going over the side because of a chain-link fence.â€
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