A family doctor who dedicated his life to helping others has tragically passed away after risking his life to help a cancer patient get to their car.
74-year-old Dr. John D. Marshall Jr. was a Georgia family practitioner who contracted coronavirus while helping an infected frail patient get to their car in a small act of kindness.
After falling ill with COVID-19, the selfless doctor, who had helped his patients for three decades, ended up on a ventilator at Savannah’s Memorial University Medical Center.
Following 111 days of battle against the killer bug, Dr. Marshall Jr. succumbed to the disease.
“He served up until the time he could not,” the doctor’s brother, Charles ‘Yahvo’ Marshall, expressed in an interview with Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
As the physician’s niece, Leslie Marshall, told AJC, Marshall “was the type of person who would take care of himself and take care of others, as well.”
According to the family, the doctor was taken to a local hospital in Americus as his symptoms worsened following self-imposed quarantine at home.
Since the local hospital couldn’t provide him with the treatment he needed, Marshall was transferred to the Savannah hospital where he had spent 111 days on a ventilator before his family turned off life support.
“It was like he just said, ‘No, the fight is over.’ He had been fighting all his life,” Leslie added.
According to the reports, Marshall is the first practicing family physician in the state of Georgia to pass away from COVID-19. May he rest in peace.
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