Picture this: you’re a pediatric emergency medicine doctor with years of experience. You’ve handled crises, trained teams, and saved lives. And yet, mid-flight from Frankfurt, Germany to New York on Singapore Airlines, you take a few bites of an airline meal that was supposed to be free of shrimp – and suddenly everything spirals out of control.
That’s what Dr. Doreen Benary of Manhattan says happened to her. The plane didn’t land at JFK International Airport as planned. Instead, the pilot diverted to Paris because Benary was in full-blown anaphylaxis.
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