Patient and Staff Stories

Pushing Through to the Pool

February 6, 2013 Patient and Staff Stories
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Teenager diagnosed with Crohn disease returns to competitive swimming Nicholas Meyer was 15 when Dr. Jonathan Ramprasad, a McLane Children’s Scott & White gastroenterologist, diagnosed him with the inflammatory bowel condition known as Crohn disease. In the fall of last year, Nick’s mother, Robbin, knew something was wrong. She watched her son crawl out of [...]

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‘The Veteran that’s been through the War’

December 18, 2012 Patient and Staff Stories
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Boys love to wrestle, play and horse around. So when 11-year-old Cristian Rojas told his mother his arm was hurting, she figured it was nothing out of the ordinary. However after seeing her doctor in town and as the pain escalated, Frances Rojas drove her son 45 minutes from Leander, TX to see specialists at [...]

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September isn’t just about football and Fall

September 7, 2012 Patient and Staff Stories
Melanie and son, Aaron

Written by Melanie Karnowski, Scott & White Family Medicine Clinic in Waco What do you think of when you think of September? For millions of Americans and thousands of Texans it’s more than just the Labor Day holiday, BBQs and the beginning of fall. September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. This month became more [...]

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“You’re a Nurse, Yo” A Song for the Unsung Heroes

July 31, 2012 Patient and Staff Stories
Nathan Wallace sings to nurses

Confined to a hospital bed with an IV in his arm, a 16-year-old teenager finds solace in his guitar. Unable to sleep, he decides to use his musical talent to write a song. As he strums on his guitar, he carefully avoids the tubes and bandages in his left arm. These hardly get in the [...]

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Director of Emergency Medicine Sees Position At New Children’s Hospital As A Dream Come True

May 16, 2012 Patient and Staff Stories
Dominic Lucia, MD

As spectators filled the circus tent and the performers prepared for their death-defying acts, a ten-year-old Dominic Lucia watched in horror as two of his friends, performing in a high-wire act, fell 50 feet to the concrete below. “I remember standing there watching EMS work on them, thinking, everybody is helpless except for the couple [...]

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