Two Mount Sinai Hospitals Work as One to Save a Life
When 24-year-old Andrea Giraldo arrived in New York City from Miami to ring in 2018 with friends in the East Village, she had no idea how gravely ill she would soon become. Her ordeal began with terrible leg pain, which sent Ms. Giraldo to a New York City hospital...
Staten Island Live: Singer Overcomes Surgery, Sings Again for the First Time on Easter Sunday
Church singer Ashley Welborn had lost her voice and was worried she might never sing again. But on Easter Sunday she was able to resume performing with the chorus at her church, thanks to Mark Courey, MD, Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the Icahn...
Hoda Farghaly: My Colleagues in Queens Inspire Me
When I was eight years old, I witnessed my mom involved in a tragic accident. Time was of the essence, and she was rushed to Mount Sinai Queens, the nearest hospital. My sister—who was seven at the time—and I were terrified that we could lose our mother. As our family...
Patient’s Art Brightens Cancer Treatment Center
A 4’ x 6’ floral landscape painting hangs in the Derald H. Ruttenberg Treatment Center at Mount Sinai thanks to Veena Agarwal, a multimedia artist and patient of Sundar Jagannath, MD, Director, Multiple Myeloma Program, The Mount Sinai Hospital. Diagnosed with stage...
Hiker Reunites With Medical Students Who Came to His Aid
Miracles happen. Kindness matters. A touch of the hand can mean “everything.” Those were some of the messages that Matthew Fredricks delivered on Monday, November 27, when he was reunited with a group of students at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai who...
An Emergency Sight-Saving Surgery for a Patient Forced to Leave Puerto Rico
Carmen Rivera of Isabela, Puerto Rico, was seeing black dots in her left eye and having trouble focusing when she visited a doctor who diagnosed her with a retinal detachment and scheduled her for emergency surgery on Tuesday, September 19. As Hurricane Maria...
Toddler Receives the Gift of Sound
Ruth Tatuleka, a 2-year-old from Uganda, was recently given the gift of hearing, thanks to a team of physicians and staff at the Mount Sinai Health System. Ruth is from Kyabirwa, a village of 1,000 people, and has been deaf since birth. Her family knew that if she...
New York Daily News: How an impromptu visit to a Mount Sinai gastroenterologist ended decades of distress
With a lot of pain and no appointment, Paul O’Neill walked into the office of James Marion, MD, at The Mount Sinai Hospital. The visit would change his life, as Dr. Marion, Professor of Medicine and Gastroenterology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and...
20th Annual Luncheon for Cancer Survivors
About 200 cancer survivors, their families and friends, and Mount Sinai faculty and staff, recently attended the 20th annual luncheon celebrating National Cancer Survivors Day®. At the event, held on Sunday, June 11, in The Mount Sinai Hospital’s Annenberg West Lobby,...
