On Sept 23, 2013, a physician performed a life-saving emergency tracheotomy in a restaurant on a patron who was choking on a piece of meat. [ link ] While eating dinner at The Mark Restaurant in California, Dr. Royce Johnson , an infectious disease doctor affiliated with UCLA, performed this procedure on Pauline Larwood, a female supervisor and a community college trustee. Dr. Johnson saved this woman's life using a pocket knife and the hollow cylinder of a pen after a Heimlich maneu…