586 doctors and nurses in 72 specialties
Childbirth: New Beginnings
Image: Chi Birmingham When Montie Christodoulou gave birth to her first child, she was lying down. “If I was uncomfortable, it was too bad.” During labor with her second child last year…
Patient Records: File Sharing
Image: Chi Birmingham In 2011, Harborview Medical Center and 278 of its patients took part in a yearlong study to test a program providing online access to medical records—doctor notes, lab results,…
Athletics: Head Safety
Image: Chi Birmingham Maple Valley middle schooler Zackery Lystedt suffered a permanent brain injury in 2006 when, following a concussion, he was allowed to continue playing in a school football game and…
Emergency Treatment: Freestanding ERs
Image: Chi Birmingham When a prominent Eastside community member suffered a relatively serious eye injury during a local basketball game, it seemed guaranteed that he’d spend the rest of the day in…
Pioneering Care: MS Wellness
Image: Chi Birmingham Visitors to Swedish’s new state-of-the-art Multiple Sclerosis Center are welcomed by a flourishing affirmation of life. Live potted plants fill the lobby wall of the 11,700-square-foot facility from floor…
Pain Management: Military Partnerships
Image: Chi Birmingham Sergeant Ashley Thayer, a Yakima native, joined the army in 2007 and served in Iraq and Afghanistan. In 2011, while deployed in Afghanistan, she suffered a spinal cord injury,…
Natural Health: Board Certification
Image: Chi Birmingham If you have benefited from massage therapy, acupuncture, or any form of naturopathic care, you can be thankful that you live in Washington. Our state has the most licensed…
Alzheimer’s: Laughter and Forgetting
By the time she turned 50, Sharon Monaghan had developed a habit of repeating herself. Then came lapses in memory and judgment. At first, she blamed her cancer treatment. One day, she got frighteningly lost on the way to the doctor.
Research: Wiki for Brain Science
Image: Chi Birmingham “The brain is one of our final frontiers for exploration, and it’s a very beautiful machine,” says Dr. Amy Bernard, director of structured science at the Allen Institute for…
Philanthropy: Disco for Dollars
Image: Chi Birmingham In July, more than 500 twenty- and thirtysomethings, along with keynote speaker Melinda Gates, gathered at McCaw Hall to party and raise money and awareness for global health. The…
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