Patient Stories
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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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Janet’s problems began slowly. She stumbled into a car once. Another time she lost her balance on a subway grate.
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Meet Cynthia, Dr. McKhann and Dr. Ford’s essential tremor patient who received deep brain stimulation.
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Parkinson disease is a progressive disorder. That means it’s a disease that usually begins with mild symptoms—a slight tremor, or a little trouble with balance—but can progress over time to more serious problems with motion, walking and even speech impairment.
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With the 2018 Winter Olympics underway in South Korea, we thought, what better time to put Josephine Pucci's story front and center once again.
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Madison Wells is a bright and energetic young woman who takes nothing for granted.
