The people we serve are at the heart of everything we do. By making an impact in a person's life, we're living out our mission of creating healthier communities. Each person we heal has their own story of what the care of St. Luke's Health provided meant to them. Lean more behind the medicine from the patient stories.
Michael Francis, a law enforcement agent in Houston, Texas, has dealt with seizures all his life. As the first step in treating almost any chronic condition, Michael’s doctor prescribed medication to reduce his seizure activity and keep his epilepsy
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Baylor St. Luke’s Physicians Save Patient’s Limb from Amputation Like most diabetics, losing a lower leg due to poor circulation to the toes was a scary thought for Roy Puckett, Jr. After he noticed some cracking in the toes in his right foot, Roy visited a hospital near his hometown of Alexandria, Louisiana. He thought that maybe he had gotten athlete’s foot from going to the
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Waddell Heinrich is a current patient of Dr. Susan Williams, geriatrician at Baylor St. Luke’s Senior Care Clinic, but their relationship goes back even further. It began when Waddell’s parents, Lou and Carleen Heinrich, who both lived in a senior li
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Dessie Bice, a woman always on the go, made sure to practice healthy habits, including eating a balanced diet and exercising every day. She never thought that her family’s history of heart disease could impact her. During her annual cardiovascular checkup at The Heart & Vascular Institute at The Woodlands Hospital, she told her cardiologist, Dr. Vincent Aquino, about a
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Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center Heart Failure Clinic Finds a “Will” When There is a “Way” After being diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997, Cyndi Bigger underwent rounds of radiation. The radiation helped her beat breast cancer, but in the process, damaged her heart. In 2014, she received a complete heart transplant evaluation by the CHI St. Luke’s Health – Baylor St. Luke’s
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Baylor St. Luke's Offers Vick Smith a New Lease on Life In late July of 2018 after working in his son’s yard in Beaumont, Texas, Vick Smith experienced chest pains and a tingling sensation in his arm. After a local hospital diagnosed him with heat stroke and asked to admit him overnight, Vick and his wife, Laurie, decided to pack their bags and head to Baylor St.Luke’s Medical
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