Nurses don't check their skills at the door when they leave health care settings. When nurses are off the clock, they often go out into the world to serve where they're needed most.
Mission trips, community clinics, disaster relief efforts - you'll find nurses in the thick of things ... more
Hunched over a huge, gray console that looks like a giant video game, Dr. Nikhil Shah presses his face against the viewfinder of a da Vinci robot, eyes glued to a 3-D image of the gooey insides of a man's abdomen. His forefingers and thumbs twist twin joysticks that control tiny bird-beak snippers.
Through his magnified viewer, he uses the microtools that look huge to him to probe, push aside and cut thread-thin muscles, nerves and veins with precision in a prostate cancer patient lying on a gurney, 10 yards away ... more
Randy Evans ran dozens of miles every week through Atlanta for years, trying to deny the risk inside him: a weak heart, just like his father's.
In 2000, the chest pains didn't stop, and he awoke in Room 2118 at Emory Crawford Long Hospital, recovering from a successful bypass operation - the surgery that had ruined his father's life ... more