Patient Stories
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“I had the first pains in my head two days after my sophomore year of high school ended.” says Jennifer Hanichak Farrell. The year was 1994 and the sixteen year old Indiana cheerleader had no idea just how serious those headaches were.
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Singer/songwriter Rob Morsberger gave a special tribute to two of our neurosurgeons, Dr. McKhann and Dr. Lavine, in the liner notes of his latest CD, Ghosts Before Breakfast.
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In the spring of 2008, seventeen-year old Buffalo, NY, native Megan Mahoney, a freshman member of Marist College’s women’s crew team, was preparing for the team’s spring training trip.
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A very grateful woman, Maria Bonyhay, has posted her story of survival on the Brain Tumor Foundation website. Her surgeon was Dr. Jeffrey Bruce from the Brain Tumor Center.
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If you are going to have a stroke, you could hardly plan it any better than to be in a room three floors down from an endovascular neurosurgeon like Dr. Sean Lavine–but that is exactly what happened to Michael Walker.
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In the late afternoon of a Friday in June, retired teacher’s aid, Janice C. Silver was resting comfortably in her hospital bed in the Cardiac Unit at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.
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Like a lot of kids, eleven-year-old Marco was diagnosed with scoliosis during a routine check-up with his pediatrician.
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In the spring of 2013, most people knew Jan Greenfield, soon to be Dr. Sisti’s patient, as an outgoing, popular nurse at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. No one knew that he would soon be a patient there, too.
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“When your oncologist calls you on a Sunday, it’s rarely good news,” says Richard Heimler. “He’s probably not calling to ask how your weekend was.” In Richard’s case, his doctor was calling to tell him he had a brain tumor.
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Casilda Beltre's story begins with a pounding headache and a trip to the emergency room.
