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- Report Says Veteran Suicide Rate Is Up From 2007
Almost every hour in this country, on average, a veteran commits suicide. The Department of Veterans Affairs reported that 22 veterans per day took their own lives in 2010, up four a day from the 2007 rate. Perhaps contrary to public perception, the report...
- State Task Force Will Look At Substance Abuse, Mental Health Care For Military Members, Veterans And Families
To help the increasing number of veterans and military service personnel who are needing treatment for substance abuse and mental health issues in Kentucky, a task force has been assembled to come up with strategies that show the most promise in providing...
- Northwest Hospital?s Dr. Stacey Berner Recognized For Surgical Excellence
Stacey Berner, M.D., medical director of the Hand Center at Northwest Hospital, has been recognized as one of the country?s ?great hand and upper extremity surgeons to know? by Becker?s Orthopedic and Spine Review. He joins an elite group of 44 other...
- Northwest Hospital Surgeon Performs First Da Vinci Robot Hand Surgery
Stacey Berner, M.D., medical director of the Hand Center at Northwest Hospital, has become the first surgeon in America to perform a revolutionary new robotic hand surgery. Berner used the da Vinci Surgical System to perform an ultra precise surgery....
- Breast Care Center Medical Director Begins At Northwest
Breast surgeon Dawn Johnson Leonard, M.D., pictured here with Northwest Hospital President Erik Wexler, is the new medical director of the Herman & Walter Samuelson Breast Care Center at Northwest Hospital. Dr. Leonard is a fellowship-trained breast...
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Louisville vascular surgeon provides 'hands on' support for troops
Dr. Andrea Yancey, a vascular surgeon from Louisville, has completed two weeks of volunteer service treating wounded American soldiers transported from Afghanistan and Iraq to the U.S. Army?s Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany.
?I now have a better understanding and enhanced respect and appreciation for our military,? Yancey said in a press release from the Society for Vascular Surgery, which has provided continuous two-week rotations of vascular surgeons at LRMC for the past four years, the release said.
?The soldiers were young, polite, and grateful,? Yancey said. ?Their mental and physical toughness and capacity for resilience were hard to comprehend. In spite of their injuries, they never complained or asked for pain medicine. They did not want to inconvenience anyone.?
Yancey is an assistant professor of surgery at the University of Louisville and a surgeon at the Robley Rex Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Louisville.
- Report Says Veteran Suicide Rate Is Up From 2007
Almost every hour in this country, on average, a veteran commits suicide. The Department of Veterans Affairs reported that 22 veterans per day took their own lives in 2010, up four a day from the 2007 rate. Perhaps contrary to public perception, the report...
- State Task Force Will Look At Substance Abuse, Mental Health Care For Military Members, Veterans And Families
To help the increasing number of veterans and military service personnel who are needing treatment for substance abuse and mental health issues in Kentucky, a task force has been assembled to come up with strategies that show the most promise in providing...
- Northwest Hospital?s Dr. Stacey Berner Recognized For Surgical Excellence
Stacey Berner, M.D., medical director of the Hand Center at Northwest Hospital, has been recognized as one of the country?s ?great hand and upper extremity surgeons to know? by Becker?s Orthopedic and Spine Review. He joins an elite group of 44 other...
- Northwest Hospital Surgeon Performs First Da Vinci Robot Hand Surgery
Stacey Berner, M.D., medical director of the Hand Center at Northwest Hospital, has become the first surgeon in America to perform a revolutionary new robotic hand surgery. Berner used the da Vinci Surgical System to perform an ultra precise surgery....
- Breast Care Center Medical Director Begins At Northwest
Breast surgeon Dawn Johnson Leonard, M.D., pictured here with Northwest Hospital President Erik Wexler, is the new medical director of the Herman & Walter Samuelson Breast Care Center at Northwest Hospital. Dr. Leonard is a fellowship-trained breast...