When Dayton “Junior” Pierce stopped by the UT Health Carthage emergency department to thank his care team, he was able to give them a wave goodbye when he left.
That small gesture is something his care team celebrated, especially since when they first met Pierce he was missing his fingers, the result of a woodworking accident in his garage at his Lake Murvaul home.
We’ve asked Dr. Katherine Bowman, AuD, audiologist at the UT Health East Texas ENT Center on Three Lakes Parkway in Tyler, to answer some of the more common questions about tinnitus.
By Avery Niles
Published:& Oct. 16, 2023 at 12:46 PM CDT
ATHENS, Texas (KLTV) - Roughly one out of eight women in the U.S. will develop invasive breast cancer in the course of their life.
Melisa Collum was working at the UT Health Athens hospital as a registered nurse when she felt a lump in her left breast.
By G. Todd Hill, CEO UT Health East Texas Physicians
The recognition last month of Prostate Cancer Month got me thinking about my own exposure to prostate cancer through watching three generations on my father’s side deal with it.
The future looked bright for Cody Westbrook, 32, from Garrison, Texas. He was about to start a new job at Lockheed Martin. He had also picked out a new puppy; an English bulldog/pitbull mix he named Capone. But on a rainy night in May 2021, everything changed.
Cody and Capone were driving through Rusk County during heavy rain when his truck hydroplaned on the highway, went off the road and struck a tree.
Patricia Porter doesn’t miss a beat. As an EKG technician at UT Health Tyler, she performs tests that are used to monitor a patient’s heart rate.
We are always happy to receive compliments from our patients.