By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 09:27 EST, 4 January 2014 | UPDATED: 19:00 EST, 4 January 2014 A University of Virginia medical student examining a fake patient as part of his training has saved the actor's life by spotting a life-threatening condition. Ryan Jones was taking part in a university program, where actors pretend to have a list of ailments that the doctor must diagnose, when he found an abdominal aortic aneurism. At first the student thought his fake patient, Jim Malloy, knew he had the condition and was a decoy, but he decided to speak up just in case.
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Fake patient had no idea he had aneurism until junior doctor spotted it
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Ryan Jones thought a decoy had been planted to test his abilities
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