A journalist recently woke to the soothing voice of Edward Snowden walking his attorney in New York through her epileptic seizure. <\/p>\n
The flickering of a video screen had triggered a seizure in Julia Prosinger, a German reporter for Der Tagesspiegel, as she spoke to Edward Snowden on a Skype call. <\/p>\n
Snowden then told his American Civil Liberties Union attorney Ben Wizner, who was sitting with Prosinger in New York, how to help her citing his own epilepsy as experience. <\/p>\n
The exiled whistleblower recognized the medical emergency all the way from Moscow during the call, which was channeled through a telepresence robot. <\/p>\n
The 'bot is at the ACLU office in lower Manhattan, where Snowden can talk constitutional law, meet with journalists and even get a view of the Statue of Liberty. <\/p>\n
\"He's used it to roll out into the hallway and generally interact with large numbers of ACLU staff,\" Wizner told Wired. <\/p>\n
That day, Snowden also used it to tell Wizner what to do when Julia Prosinger fainted in the ACLU office. <\/p>\n
Prosinger had been explaining German politics to Snowden when the flicker of his video screen spurred the seizure. <\/p>\n
She woke up with her head resting on a bean bag and her body \"in the recovery position,\" Prosinger wrote in a June 10 article translated to English. Snowden also instructed Wizner to grab a glass of juice for her. <\/p>\n
The seizure nearly knocked Prosinger into a set of metal filing cabinets, but Snowden had Wizner get her away from the hard surface before she hurt herself. <\/p>\n
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