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By Dave DeFusco
When Eliana Zachter, a student in the Katz School’s M.S. in Physician Assistant Studies, was prepping for a cesarean section with her surgical team at Bellevue Hospital, she was warned by the resident physician that there’d be a lot of blood. But Zachter, who in high school had volunteered on her […]
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By David DeFusco
Noah Newlon, a student in the Katz School’s M.S. in Physician Assistant Studies, remembers accompanying his younger brother to doctors’ appointments and hospital visits when they were growing up in Cleveland. Noah’s brother Rowen, born with aortic valve stenosis, a condition that obstructs the flow of blood throughout the body, spent […]
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By Dave DeFusco
A recently published chapter on Abuse and Violence Prevention by Thomas Balga, clinical assistant professor in the Katz School’s M.S. in Physician Assistant Studies, offers clinicians a guide for the comprehensive and compassionate care of the 3 million children who are victims of abuse each year.
The federal Centers for Disease […]
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By Dave DeFusco
Anthony Pagan watched the patient’s chest rise and fall as he prepared to assist the surgeon at the operating table, the noxious scent of burning flesh filling the air as a cauterizing instrument sliced through tissue.
The surgeon made four incisions, and then it was Pagan’s turn. A second-year student in the […]
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