(WFTV 9) — An Orlando Health patient who survived a devastating crash will reunite Wednesday with the trauma surgeon and care team who helped him recover.
The reunion is part of National Trauma Survivors Day, which raises awareness about trauma survivors and the medical teams who support them. Cristian Allen was 19-years-old when he suffered a severe traumatic brain injury in a crash last year.
He was taken to Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center, where he was treated by the hospital’s trauma team. One of the doctors who cared for him, Dr. Joseph Ibrahim, had a special connection to Allen before the crash. Orlando Health said Ibrahim was Allen’s assistant baseball coach when Allen was a child. CONTINUE