Dr. Joseph Giordano, a surgeon who played a central role in saving President Ronald Reagan's life after an assassination ...

He had built one of the country’s leading trauma centers in Washington, which made it possible for his team to respond ...

Dr. Joseph Giordano, a surgeon who played a central role in saving President Ronald Reagan’s life after an assassination ...

FILE – President Ronald Reagan waves and then looks up before being shoved into the President’s limousine by secret service agents after being shot outside a Washington hotel, March 30, 1981.

Ronald Reagan won many Americans over after being shot. AP “Reagan was shot. He survived and did well. He won re-election in a landslide,” he said.

WASHINGTON – When Ronald Reagan was shot just a few blocks from where I was working in Dupont Circle, political assassinations and attempted assassinations were nothing new in American culture.

Dr. Joseph Giordano, a surgeon who played a central role in saving President Ronald Reagan’s life after an assassination attempt in 1981, has died. He was 84.