Jon Hagen was working a normal Saturday night shift as a flight nurse during Labor Day weekend in 2002 when he and his partner received a call about a rollover accident on a rural highway. They rushed to the scene […]
At only 17 years old and a senior in high school, Blake Schuchardt began suffering from an illness that changed the course of the rest of his life. Eager to start college the next year, he woke up one morning
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Greta Zimmer Friedman, the nurse kissed by a sailor in the iconic picture taken in Times Square on V-J Day in 1945, has reportedly passed away according to her son. The photo which marked the end of World War II
After working in an oncology clinic for 25 years, Claudia Besco was diagnosed with breast cancer this spring. A routine mammogram spotted her cancer, forcing her to take 12 weeks off of work for chemotherapy and surgery, but then she
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After 19-year-old and single mom Lisa Creason attempted to rob a Subway shop out of desperation to provide for her young daughter, she wound up spending the next two decades paying for her actions. Creason served just one year for
When oncology nurse Jessica Bezotte landed her dream job in 2011 working with cancer patients at the Cancer Treatment Centers of America on the medical oncology ward, she knew she would need more education to advance her career. She was
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When a Naval aircrewman witnessed a life-or-death moment taking place on the San Diego-Coronado Birdge last Monday, he pulled over to stop a man from leaping into the bay below. As the sailor struggled with the man attempting suicide, he
Mary Walls-Penney is a geriatric nurse. Most of her patients suffer from dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, but even when they don’t recognize her they’re always happy to see her. Walls-Penney knows she works hard as a nurse, always trying to
21-year-old Emma Young has been singing and playing piano since she was 10 years old. She recently used her musical talents to make patients smile as the hospice facility where she works when she sat down to play Adele’s cover
Amelia Ballard who was hospitalized for more than two years as a young child had already beat leukemia twice by the time she was 5 years old. After undergoing several rounds of chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant at Children’s
