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says. An early option discussed was to transport The Ripple Effect
Susan back to the States for treatment.
“But I was in so much pain. It hurt to breathe,” Healthnetwork thrives because of
she says. “I cannot imagine the process of generous people who give back.
being medevacked back.”
“We were given an exceptional chance
with Healthnetwork and we are glad to
give back. It’s like the ripple eect: The
“I honestly believe that stronger the referrals, the resources, the
it’s because of Healthnetwork sta, the marketing—everything!—the
stronger Healthnetwork becomes, the
I am walking today.” more people you will be able to help.”
— Susan Taylor
Grateful for Second Opinions
Susan says they learned a lot through the
ordeal, including that, “One opinion is just an
opinion, even if you are told the opinion comes
from a team of specialists. If you get a second
opinion that reinforces the first, that’s one
thing. But if you get a second opinion that
is radically dierent, your ears perk up.”
Once Susan felt well enough to travel,
the Taylors went to their home in Ocean
Reef, Florida, where she saw an orthopaedic Now Open!
surgeon for follow-up care and threw herself Cleveland Clinic London
into physical therapy.
“I’m putting Mr. Paul Harnett, who did Susan Taylor’s
everything I complicated surgery, is one of over
have into it, physicians at Cleveland Clinic’s brand new
and I expect -bed hospital in London, which opened
to make a near Buckingham Palace on March , .
complete Cleveland Clinic, a long-time partner of
recovery,” she Healthnetwork Foundation, has been
says. “I have my building their clinical sta in London for
lovely stilettos sitting in the closet. I see them years ahead of the hospital’s grand
and say, ‘Okay girls, next year.’” opening, which is how we were able to
After three months in a wheelchair, Susan facilitate a connection for the Taylors. The
was overjoyed to graduate to a walker and outside of the hospital building looks
then a cane. “Once I got out of that wheelchair, historic and stately; the inside oers
every day was a sunny day!” And while it’s state-of-the art technology, including a
been a long and painful road to recovery, pharmacy robot that individually wraps and
she is grateful for how things turned out. tracks drugs by barcode to the patient’s
“I honestly believe that it’s because of bedside, and intraoperative imaging
technology that creates images of the brain
Healthnetwork I am walking today.” ✦
during brain and spinal cord surgeries so
Notes: neurosurgeons get accurate, real-time
* This story uses pseudonyms in order to respect the family’s pictures of the brain. ✦
desire to remain anonymous.
**Surgeons in the UK take the title of Mr.
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