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How Empathy, Education, Communication and the PAST Model transformed Sickle Cell Patient Care

Society for Participatory Medicine

In 2004, as a staff nurse at Baptist Medical Center South in Montgomery, Alabama, I cared for a group of pediatric and adult African-American Sickle Cell patients who would come to my medical-oncology unit for treatment. They would stay a few days, get fluids, and get Phenergan around the clock for nausea, and narcotics for pain.

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10 Famous Celebrities Living with Type 1 Diabetes

Insulin Nation

Nick was diagnosed at the age of 13 after extreme weight loss landed him in the hospital. Gary continued to collect medals in the 2004 games and today spends much of his time advocating for diabetic athletes. In fact, she had to beg the network to let her stay on the show after she was hospitalized. Crystal Bowersox.

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150 top places to work in healthcare

Henry Kotula

Advocate Health Care, one of Chicagoland’s largest employers, has more than 35,000 associates, including 11,000 nurses and nearly 6,300 affiliated physicians. Anna Jaques Hospital is a 123-bed independent, nonprofit community hospital based in Massachusetts. Advocate Health Care (Downers Grove, Ill.).