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Stepping back is best for springing forward: tips for dealing with the beginning of daylight saving time

By Jessica Pasley

Go to bed a little earlier than usual. Take a good look at the morning sun when you get up.

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Employee Spotlight

Neurology’s Bruce Ayers brings his love of music to the world as the founder of Nashville African American Wind Symphony

By Paul Govern

My grandmother would say, 'Boy, stop banging on that piano.' And my grandfather would say, 'Let him keep playing, this might turn into something for him.'

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Employee Spotlight

A stroke left Kate Adamson trapped in her body, unable to communicate. Here’s how she recovered and became a VUMC social worker.

By Bill Snyder

"You can see and hear everything around you, but you appear dead. It is like being locked in a glass coffin.”

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Elevate Team Award

Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus Protocol Team improves lives of hard-to-diagnose patients

By Jill Clendening

“The NPH Protocol exemplifies multiple disciplines working together to improve the lives of patients and their caregivers.”

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Employee Spotlight

Feb. 3 is a special day to honor women physicians. Allie Bell created her own greeting cards for the occasion.

By Wayne Wood

The birthday of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell, the first American woman physician, is observed as National Women Physician Day

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Contest

Winners of 2022 pumpkin-carving contests announced

By Wayne Wood

The best of this year's gourd-as-artistic-medium entries from Vanderbilt departments and from Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital

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Patient Spotlight

Carly Schroeder had a stroke in her 20s. Now 10 years later, she is thankful for her life, her family and the care she received at Vanderbilt

By Tavia Smith

"I'm eternally grateful to all the people that helped me through that dark time."

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