He was across the street from the hospital. The ER entrance was about 40 yards away, just up a little hill.
I had a cousin in a rural town who drove himself to the hospital 40 miles away in the middle of a heart attack. Because there wasn't anybody else. He could easily have ended up the same way.
Anyway, he probably could have gotten a neighbor to drive him. Not sure why he didn't. Most likely the neighbors were drunk, since once hunting season is over that's what passes for entertainment. Not that they don't get drunk while they're hunting. Probably the only thing worse than driving yourself to the hospital during a heart attack is having your drunk neighbor crash the car in which you're having a heart attack.
The funny part of the story is he got someone to call ahead so the hospital was expecting him. He gets to the emergency room and the ER nurse (there's only one) says "Have a seat. We have an emergency case coming in any minute." He sits down wondering what kind of shape you have to be in to bump a heart attack patient. But he figured after 40 minutes he was still alive, so it probably wasn't going to kill him. He's kind of a stoic guy, too, so he didn't protest. Just sat down.
Five minutes later the nurse runs back into the waiting room with wide eyes, points at him and says "It's you!"