be able to show somebody what was happening. because i knew this wasn t stress. you know, having been to emergency, i was so shocked that a doctor dismissed it as stress. and yet everything that i can recall from public service announcements and things that i ve seen on tv, i knew they were stroke symptoms. good for you. i mean, elizabeth cohen, you talk all of the time about being an empowered patient. i have you as my voice in my head so she followed her gut. she knew it, and tends up it was suffering tias. what is that? that is a transient ischemic attack, and it s in layman s terms, a mini stroke. and they may last three or four minutes and then they go away. and in and of themselves, they re not always harmful, but a strong indicator you re going to have another stroke. i want to give these symptoms here as a public service. because when they happen, you need to know so you can be empowered like stacy was. first, you can remember the acronym face.
standing in front of the tv camera live on tv with a hot microphone outside the grammy awards we heard this in los angeles. live at the staples center with highlights and, back stage coverage, we re seeing for the first time. well, a very, very heavy. heavy. [unintelligible words]. bill: after that report, many wondered whether or not the reporter had a minor stroke live on television and dr. kathleen london, the family physician in new york and assistant professor at wild cornell medical college out of new york city. good morning, you have not seen her or treated her. what do you think happened right there? i mean, looking at that, it looks like something we called a transient ischemic attack or tia and she had the confusion of her words and face looked a little droopy and, that can be a warning sign and is not a stroke
so we can t say she had a stroke because we have been told she got better. strokes don t occur unless they lasted more than 24 hours. a brief episode might be something called a krans cents is keep a transient ischemic attack. but this was brief if she was better and went home. i agree with the doctors who say she should have been seen. i think she should have. don t know her. but this is the kind of a situation that does appear fires appear neurologic. we talked megyn: searching for words but gibberish is what s coming out. you want to say something, but different word or gibberish