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Interdisciplinary Team Provides Support after Traumatic Brain InjuryThe University of Kansas Health System TBI care team provided comprehensive follow-up care for student Madison Denton.
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Expert Cervical Cancer Care Keeps Designer’s Dreams on TrackCelebrating her daughter’s beach wedding, Rynette Reiling-Minor reveled in the sights and sounds of Cancun. She was determined to soak in the July 2017 event, despite having completed aggressive treatment for cervical cancer just days earlier. Rynet...
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Advanced Trauma Care Enables Recovery"It's been a long, dark road," says Jake Moore. There is irony in his statement. It was a long, dark road that took several months of his memory and nearly his life. On April 25, 2017, Jake was riding his motorcycle. It was dark, and it was rainin...
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Patient Grateful for Plastic Surgery After Traumatic InjuryElizabeth Usovicz took a nasty fall in her home that caused a traumatic injury to her face. She was rushed to the emergency room at The University of Kansas Hospital for her initial treatment. The physicians there referred her to plastic surgery due...
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Teen Receives Lifesaving Trauma CareWhen the Bohns’ 2 sons were involved in a head-on car collision, the crash happened near their home in southeastern Kansas. Ambulances transported the boys to a nearby hospital in Joplin, where it was determined one son needed to be transported to Th...
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Grafting, Reconstruction Save Life After TraumaAfter a construction accident, there was a good chance Jim Morris would lose his left leg, if he survived the injury at all.
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Comprehensive Movement Disorder CareAfter traditional treatments no longer controlled Dave Scheer's Parkinson's disease symptoms, he began deep brain stimulation (DBS) therapy.
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Basketball Player Rebounds from Chondral Defect Knee SurgeryWhen Mark Mitchell landed awkwardly during a basketball camp, his knee didn't feel quite right. He was later diagnosed with a chondral injury to his right patella, or a tear to the kneecap.
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Health System Delivers Exactly the Right Care for Mom of 3When Lacy and Duskin Bowman learned they were expecting their third child, they knew they had a choice of where to go for her prenatal care and labor and delivery. Their choice was simple: The University of Kansas Health System in Great Bend.
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Dear Birth PlaceDear Birth Place at The University of Kansas Health System, Olathe Campus, Happy birthday! I saw that The Birth Place’s neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) is turning 5 this month, and I wanted to express my family’s gratitude for your services. We...