Dr. Michael Copass in his emergency department's resuscitation room at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Copass died on July 26 at age 86. (Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times, 2002) To one former ...

In 1997, I worked as a medical student at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle for six weeks. I was in my fourth year at the University of Washington School of Medicine., and Dr. Michael Copass was ...

SEATTLE — Dr. Michael Copass instilled a high standard of care in thousands of doctors, nurses and paramedics across the Northwest, urging colleagues to care for each patient "like you would your own ...

Michael Copass, MD, a well-known leader in emergency medicine and founder of patient air transportation service Airlift Northwest, died July 26 at the age of 86. After attending both Stanford (Calif.) ...

I remember meeting Dr. Michael Copass in the fall of 1977. I had just finished my management training at the University of Washington and was hired by Bob Jetland, then-CEO at Harborview, to join the ...

Re: “Dr. Michael Copass — gentle giant in Northwest health care” [Aug. 17, Opinion]: I was fortunate enough to know Mike Copass well, and to work with him on and off over 50 years. His quirks are well ...

In 1974, the CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes called Seattle the best place to have a heart attack in America because survival rates were the best in the country. And by 2019, victims of cardiac arrest ...

In the town he helped to put on the map as "the best place in the world to have a heart attack," Dr. Michael Copass had a heart attack Sunday. He was fetched by Medic One, the tax-supported emergency ...