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Patient thankful for care team who saved his fingers after woodworking accident

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.

Pierce, 75, was working on a project for his wife in early October, using a miter saw to cut wood, when it slipped and cut off his fingers. His wife raced him to UT Health Carthage, where the emergency department...

East Texas Nurse Practitioner Seminar featuring Dr Williams

Do you hear ringing, buzzing, clicking or whooshing sounds in your ears? If so, you are not alone.

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.

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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.

"We were up on the floor one day and my PCP happened to be up there, Dr. Swartwood, and some of the nurse's kind of let the cat out of the bag. So he made me come see him that day, and sure enough he sent me over to the breast center...

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 second and third generation (my grandfather and my father and uncles) received early diagnosis and were success stories. I did get to see the benefit of PSA surveillance and even saw the progression of surgical methods from open to laparoscopic methods. The recovery for the open surgery was grueling and had many issues from surgery that...

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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.

When he regained consciousness, Cody was pinned inside the truck. He couldn’t find his phone, but he could reach his pistol, so he fired a few times into the ground to get...

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. She can often help detect heart disease, heart attack, an enlarged heart or abnormal heart rhythms that may cause heart failure in the future....

We are always happy to receive compliments from our patients.

John Perkins recently received care through our intensive cardiac rehabilitation program in Tyler, using Pritikin ICR. Unlike the 36 exercise sessions offered through a traditional cardiac rehabilitation program, Pritikin offers...

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Patient thankful for care team who saved his fingers after woodworking accident

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