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Deadliest Catch - Whats Making Phil Sick

by Healthy Shana on July 4th, 2008

We all know that Captain Phil of the Cornelia Marie has been sick the entire season of Deadliest Catch. In the video clip below we get a small insight as to what exactly has been causing him to be sick. Watch below and see if you can figure it out.

Deadliest Catch: What’s Ailing Phil

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8 opinions for Deadliest Catch - Whats Making Phil Sick

  • M.D. Wells
    Jul 9, 2008 at 12:41 am

    It is called Dvt Deep vain fibrosis. Caused from sitting for long periods of time and the blood doesn’t circulate in your legs witch causes a blood clot, that eventually frees up and moves to the legs or heart with no warning. Phil is lucky he survived. Most cases aren’t caught in time. Like my father.

  • Healthy Shana
    Jul 9, 2008 at 8:53 am

    Thanks for sharing M.D Wells

  • Brian Callier PA-C
    Jul 23, 2008 at 8:13 pm

    The dude needs to quit smoking. He smokes like a chimney. One more Pulmonary embolism he will not likely survive, he doesn’t have the lung capacity. The smoking will eventually get him anyway. Furthermore, on the show when they thought he fractured a rib, you do not want to use a splint around the ribcage. It may offer some pain relief, but it can reduce the ability to completely expand the chest cavity when breathing and lead to pneumonia. Pain control is the only treatment for rib fractures so the patient can deep breath and cough more comfortably, thus reducing the likelyhood of developing pneumonia.

  • Brian Callier PA-C
    Jul 23, 2008 at 8:16 pm

    FYI It is called DVT (Deep Vein Thrombosis) not fibrosis. The DVT can travel to the lung and cause a pulmonary embolism, that is what Capt Phil suffered. He is very fortunate he survived.

  • NY medic
    Jul 26, 2008 at 4:42 pm

    good luck to phil DVT’s claim alot of lives. Also thanks for clearing up the DVT thing made me twinge a bit

  • Betty Oswald/Dave Williams
    Aug 7, 2008 at 11:13 am

    We feel like family to Phil. Our thoughts and prayers are with him.

  • Healthy Shana
    Aug 8, 2008 at 11:06 am

    He’s alot better now.

  • James Cobb
    Sep 16, 2008 at 2:07 am

    Anyone who’s watched Phil at all on the show knows that he’s a smoking timebomb. He’s a substance (nicotine) addict, he’s killing himself one drag at a time. Let Darwin take it from here. His 15 minutes of fame is pretty much over anyway. He was fun to watch. The only victims here are his family - kids, grandkids, etc - if he cared about them enough he would have not been smoking and instead given them more time with him. So be it.

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