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california, is a mountain paradise. gorgeous skiing and loads of snowmobilers. after skiing down the slopes one morning, chuck stopped in at the local snowmobile center and while he was inside, all of a sudden he fell down. you could draw a line down the center of my body and everything was disconnected on the right-hand side. reporter: chuck had a massive stroke in the middle of nowhere. bear valley nurse kathy snyder raced chuck to the edge of town to wait for a helicopter ambulance. i just remember the rotors turning and the snow flying. and just waiting to go. reporter: time is of the essence and this helicopter doesn t move. why were precious minutes being wasted? the flight nurse wanted to take chuck to the nearest hospital, which was a small hospital. he had a cardiac problem. he had a stroke problem. he needed to go to a hospital where there were specialists standing by. and these small hospitals don t offer that. reporter: you argued hard. i did argue hide.
kind of got like this in each other s face. reporter: kathy convinced the helicopter team to fly to a hospital that was much further away. the flight took an extra 15 minutes. dr. christopher marcus took one look at chuck s ct scan and knew he had a drug that could reverse the stroke. we have three hours to give it. we had to get it in in the next ten minutes. reporter: talk about under the wire. you must think about and think if kathy hadn t argued with them. i m convinced there was a very, very high probability i would have been in a wheelchair. reporter: can anyone do this? if you feel like there s a bad decision can you put your foot down? you can change hospitals. everybody has that ability and should be aware of it. our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joining me. do people understand that it really does matter which hospital you go to? i don t think they do understand. i think most people think a hospital is a hospital is a hospital. but hospitals spe