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Standish is OK after two-day hospital stay

    by Dan Gross
    Published 

is doing just fine after spending two nights at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. The former CBS 3 reporter was

» READ MORE: taken there Wednesday night

after fainting at Finnigan's Wake (3rd & Spring Garden) during his retirement party.  Standish, 65, left CBS 3 after 29 years on the air. He says he collapsed after drinking a Coors Light on an empty stomach. Doctors at HUP gave him a litany of tests and still aren't sure what went wrong, but Standish was given a clean bill of health and planned to spend the weekend "laying low," he told us Friday.

Standish, who is not a big drinker, had a busy day Wednesday, reporting a story and getting choked up while being feted on the 4 p.m. newscast and also at a station reception after that.

The reporter was in good spirits, joking with the ambulance crew and allowing CBS 3 reporter Jamie Smith, who paid him a visit on Thursday, to take this photograph. Standish says he might do some traveling, but for now, he'll serve as clerk-typist for his wife's TV-executive newsletter, The Rundown. Standish's wife is former KYW-TV reporter Kim Sedgwick.