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Caregiver teams work together to save cardiac patient
Read more: Caregiver teams work together to save cardiac patientRandall Robinson doesn’t remember much about what happened that day, only what others have told him. The 73-year-old Whitehouse resident and retired CPA stays active most days by handling maintenance duties at his rental property and at Whitehouse Methodist Church. One Wednesday morning, Robinson was driving his white pickup truck down Grande Boulevard in Tyler…
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A Miracle in Motion: Rusk Man Survives Sepsis, Amputations and Returns to the Golf Course
Read more: A Miracle in Motion: Rusk Man Survives Sepsis, Amputations and Returns to the Golf CourseWhen Mark Raiborn first began feeling sick in April 2023, he brushed it off as a cold. His wife of more than 30 years, Angela, and their three foster children had just recovered from similar symptoms, so he assumed he was simply the last to catch it. “I woke up the next day and said,…
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Patient Profile: Gary Smith
Read more: Patient Profile: Gary SmithAt 64, Gary Smith has spent most of his career in the cath lab, working side by side with cardiologist Frank Navetta, MD, FACC, FSCAI at UT Health East Texas in Tyler. What he didn’t expect was that one day he’d become the patient—and that the condition he’d been quietly battling for years would nearly…
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Patient Profile: Sandra Crowe
Read more: Patient Profile: Sandra CroweAt 57, retired English teacher Sandra Crowe thought she had a pretty good handle on her health. Living in Tyler, Texas with her husband Roderick, she stayed active, walking two to five miles several days a week and keeping up the kind of diet most doctors would applaud. So when she occasionally felt short of…
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Alba resident praises hospital staff after inpatient stay
Read more: Alba resident praises hospital staff after inpatient stayRenee Hickman knew something was seriously wrong. Dizzy, confused and without an appetite, the 64-year-old Alba, Texas resident had been feeling off since Friday night. By Saturday, she had no memory of the entire day — a detail that alarmed her enough to finally agree to her husband Burie’s urging to go to the emergency…
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Rachel Villanueva
Read more: Rachel VillanuevaRachel Villanueva was not used to being on the receiving end of patient care. As supervisor of the UT Health East Texas Physicians pediatric clinic on Fifth in Tyler, Rachel oversees the care of dozens of patients throughout the week. But when it came to managing her own weight and overall health, she needed her…
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Shaun Rivers
Read more: Shaun RiversAt nearly 400 pounds and a 48-inch waist, Shaun Rivers was ashamed to be seen in public and didn’t want to leave his house. All he wanted was to improve his health and knew it was time for a change. Today, he is down to 201 pounds and a 34-inch waist. Rivers’ journey to better…
