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When Pastor Vic Comstock, 63, arrived at a hospital near his home in Moberly, Missouri, he thought he was battling pneumonia. Vic faced a series of life-threatening complications, including sepsis, respiratory failure, and dehydration.

When Kumar Vasudevan, MD, a WashU Medicine neurosurgeon at Christian Hospital, meets with patients to discuss if spine surgery is right for them, he shares that their path to pain relief starts before he puts on his surgical scrubs and extends after the operation is complete.

Matt Neil, radiotherapy service engineer on the BJC clinical asset management team.

Once a star athlete in high school and college, Cortez Ward has faced a number of serious medical challenges over the past several years -- and, today, he uses a wheelchair to get around.

For more than a decade, Tim Johnson, 66, has lived with a chronic aortic dissection, a serious condition where the inner layer of the aorta tears, allowing blood to flow between the layers of the aortic wall.

Chenitra Grimes-Washington returned to the Christian Hospital (CH) and Northwest HealthCare (NWHC) Emergency Departments to thank her caregivers.

Christian Hospital's leading-edge heart procedures have continued to expand and refine since the introduction of its “hybrid room.”

Bruce and Andrea Slaner both turned to the Pain Management Center at Parkland Health Center, for help with chronic pain. Today they are living pain-free and getting back to life, together.

Mike Mueller, 61, from Swansea, Illinois, had multiple heart tests done a few years ago and was free of any blockage. However, blockage can occur quickly. He recently started feeling pressure in his chest but didn’t believe it could be his heart. For a few days, a lingering cough—maybe bronchitis—was the reason he hadn’t been feeling well. On Dec. 26, 2024, while playing pickleball at the local YMCA with his son, who was in town for the holidays, Mike started feeling winded and dizzy.

As Stephen Price stood alone filming the sunrise along Yellowstone National Park’s Beaver Ponds Trail, he reflected on what had been a perfect trip.