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Agenda for Duke Medical Students

By amber | Published: April 25, 2010
Duke Medical School Lecture Agenda Monday April 26, 2010 1. Introduce myself 2. CF Facts • CF is the 2nd most common inherited childhood onset diseases in the US. • Approximately 30,000, w/ 1,000 new cases per year • CF affects mostly Caucasians, and seen least in Asians • 70% of patients are diagnosed by 2yrs of age, although I have two friends, one diagnosed at 17yrs old [...]
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Holiday Happenings

By amber | Published: December 29, 2009
It has been a few weeks since my last blog, so thought I would share with you the happenings of the holidays. It started on our (Leah, Travis, Rod, myself, and Hank, the 145lb Great Dane) drive to Boston from NC. We left Durham around 5pm, just after the snow began to fall. [...]
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Rejection Yet Again

By amber | Published: December 12, 2009
This past Tuesday I received a phone call from my lung transplant coordinator, Tracie. She was calling to inform me of my previous week’s bronchoscopy results. They weren’t the words I was expecting to hear, “REJECTION again.” As the pathologists’ reports indicate, it is A1 acute rejection. This summer it was [...]
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