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What would you do if you were a key player in a business responsible for one of the nation’s biggest public-health crises? Leave town? Find a new line of work? Change your name?
Where are the doctors who practiced at Las Vegas endoscopy clinics associated with the outbreak of hepatitis C now? Mostly, they’re still here. Profiles of the 14 doctors:
When Dr. Dale Carrison, chief of staff at University Medical Center, learned another physician had claimed that a 90-day jail stay would place boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr.’s health in jeopardy, Carrison said he felt embarrassment for the medical profession. Carrison said ” sanity prevailed” when a judge denied Mayweather’s request to be placed under house arrest because of “inhumane” conditions at the Clark County Detention Center.
Even after the doctors told Janine Kinard to enjoy the last few months with her son because he would die, she was determined that he could beat his cancer.
When Lisette Davila won a contest for being the biggest soap opera fan in Las Vegas, she thought she would get some new makeup and maybe a dress.
Davila, 40, ended up with much more than that. She got a new head of hair and regained her self-confidence.
Somehow it always comes as a surprise – a doctor or his loved ones getting sick. Oh, sure, when I think about it rationally, I know physicians and their families are prone to the same illnesses and bad luck as the rest of us mortals.
But I’m not always rational when it comes to my health or that of my family.
Being a good workout partner is more than just showing up. Your partner is counting on you. Your presence and your eagerness to work out may be your partner’s only motivation that day. They won’t tell you, but that is often the way it is.
For Danielle Havis, a good working knowledge of sunscreens is as necessary a job requirement as knowing CPR. Havis, 24, is assistant pool manager at Henderson’s Whitney Ranch Aquatic Complex. Before that, she spent several years as a lifeguard. And for Havis and other Southern Nevadans who work outdoors all summer, staving off the health effects of overexposure to the sun is a daily concern.
Where some only see vomit, one man saw Las Vegas gold. And he was right.
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Many breast cancer survivors would tell you that the day they were diagnosed was the hardest day of their lives. For Brandi Ellis, a Las Vegas mother of three diagnosed with invasive lobular carcinoma in May 2020, the first thing she did was walk downstairs to tell her family — her “first line of defense,” as she calls them.