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Tag: Nurses

Behold, the power of the singing nurse

Bob Collins November 12, 2018, 1:24 PM Nov 12, 2018

Here’s your daily dose of sweetness: Brenda Buurstra, a nurse in Kalamazoo, Mich., says she sings to patients all the time; it’s just that the video that someone took of her the other day is the first time she “got caught.” Roberta Lytle — that’s her dad in the bed — is the one who Read more →

Health · People doing good

38 years later, burned baby meets nurse who helped save her

Bob Collins September 29, 2015, 6:53 PM Sep 29, 2015

Nurse Susan Berger always wondered whatever happened to the baby she cared for in 1977. The badly-burned baby grew up to be Amanda Scarpinati, who always wondered whatever happened to that nurse.
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