Creepy Venue for Giambi Surgery
If you were Jason Giambi and you were getting ready to have surgery on your wrist, there are probably a few places where you wouldn’t want the surgery performed: a barnyard, the top of a mountain, the building where a teammate’s two-seater plane crashed just a week earlier, etc.
But it seems like Giambi’s surgery may in fact take place in one of those places. Can you guess which one?
Giambi’s procedure is being done by Dr. Andrew J. Weiland, who is an attending orthopedist at New York Hospital for Special Surgery. Weiland’s office is in the same high-rise that Corey Lidle’s plane crashed into last week.
From the New York Post:
The office of Weiland, who is actually the Mets hand specialist, is in the Belaire, the same Upper East Side high-rise the late Cory Lidle’s plane crashed into last week. Not only were Lidle and Giambi Yankees teammates, they played together with the A’s and were South Hills High School teammates in California. Giambi attended Lidle’s memorial service in Orange County Tuesday. There is a chance the surgery will take place in Weiland’s Belaire office.
This definitely falls into the “what are the odds?” department. Thanks to Zvee for pointing this story out.
October 19th, 2006 at 7:44 pm
I’m not a doctor, but surgery is generally done in a hospital - not a doctor’s office. Still a weird coincidence, though.
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