Patient Spotlight
VUMC New Year’s babies bring bright start to 2021
By Linda Zettler
Welcome, Graham; welcome, Nike; welcome, Oakley Rose!
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Patient Spotlight
Stroke survivor with aphasia is able to vote, thanks to his speech-language pathologist
By Kate Carney
Sady Sayago believes that voting is an important part of being a citizen; he worked with Jennifer Barry to make sure he could cast his ballot.
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Patient Spotlight
“Tough guy” actor gets tender care at VUMC
By Nancy Humphrey
He's been a villain on "Weeds" and "Queen of the South"; he says his health care team members are heroes
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Patient Spotlight
In memory of Kyle
By Matt Batcheldor
Last year, an honor walk for paramedic Kyle Fisher went viral. Now, his mother, a nurse at Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital, is promoting organ donation in his memory.
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Patient Spotlight
The police officer needed a kidney transplant. The donor turned out to be very familiar to him — he had arrested her numerous times.
By Matt Batcheldor
He had been a cop for four decades. She had been featured on "Alabama's Most Wanted."
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Patient Spotlight
Kidney transplant patient returns home to joyous reverse parade
By Matt Batcheldor
Lee Foster's friends and neighbors smiled, waved, honked and enjoyed cake pops
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Patient Spotlight
Two brushes with death. Two life-saving Vanderbilt physicians. Then, two children.
By Matt Batcheldor
"Vanderbilt will always be a place that we hold dear for everything they have done for us,” says Mary Beth Ballard Murray.
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Patient Spotlight
She wanted a baby for so long, and then he needed lifesaving surgery. A healthy child is Maira Hernandez’s Mother’s Day gift.
By Kelsey Herbers
“I want him to have a bright future, and I thank God for putting Michele in my path so my baby can have that.”
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Patient Spotlight
Heart to heart
By Matt Batcheldor
This teacher got a life-saving heart transplant. So did her student. What are the odds?
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