
Patient Files
Your stories of healing, coping and recovery
Sensory overload: How superpower hearing turned into a sonic nightmare
This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and scie ...
6 years ago
Listen‘It’s never too late’ to start again; life after addiction
Cory Cohen’s slide into addiction is one that echoes all over the country. Cohen is 22 years old, grew up in the suburbs of ...
6 years ago
ListenTeen recounts experience of fighting for his life
My name is Diego Luke, and I am a 17-year-old high school junior in St. Paul, Minnesota. Grow ...
6 years ago
ListenContinuing to smile, despite a failing heart
Linda Jara went to the doctor in December of last year for a simple sinus infection. By Christmas, she was in heart failure. Walki ...
6 years ago
ListenOutrunning cancer and beating the odds with a positive attitude
In September of 2014, sports medicine physician Michael Ross received a shocking diagnosis: Stage 4 colon cancer. Ross is an avid athlete ...
7 years ago
ListenFace off with fear: Standing in the path of a charging elephant
Filmmakers Dereck and Beverly Joubert are “explorers in residence” for National Geographic — they have lived in Botswana fo ...
7 years ago
ListenNine months pregnant, and facing her biggest fear
Giving birth to a child for the first time is a big step into the unknown. You can prepare for it, do breathing exercises and take birthi ...
7 years ago
ListenAfter prescription drug addiction, the road to recovery
When we think of people being addicted to prescription drugs, we usually think of opiods or stimulants, however there are a growing numbe ...
7 years ago
ListenManaging multiple sclerosis through a relationship of trust and lots of negotiations
What a lot of us really want from our physicians is care – care that goes beyond managing illness or symptoms. Maureen OR ...
7 years ago
ListenSometimes treating a terminal illness does more harm than good
When my mother died earlier this year, I was able to prepare myself, my family, and my mother, herself, for her death. Difficult health a ...
7 years ago
ListenDocumenting dad’s dementia through photos and audio
Ellie Brown is a local photographer who has been documenting her father’s development of dementia. A couple of years ago, the ...
7 years ago
ListenSearching for a diagnosis and finding a community
Imagine you’re a parent and your child is not developing like other children her age, but doctors can’t tell you why. You tak ...
7 years ago
ListenPhiladelphia artist remembers her father, one of the city’s early AIDS victims
In the early days of the AIDS epidemic, the gay community was hit hard. But contrary to public perception, not all those who were infecte ...
7 years ago
ListenAfter car accident, Phillies employee comes back swinging
Steve Noworyta suffered big league injuries in a crash last year, but is nearly back to full strength. Steve Noworyta has the hulk ...
7 years ago
ListenFrom the swimming pool to the hospital, one boy’s story of recovery post-stroke
Seven-year-old Bryan Sadowski spent the first three months of this year in the hospital fighting for his life, then fighting to regain t ...
7 years ago
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