June 2011
http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/houseorgan/archive/HO6_11.pdf
Giving patients a hand
May. 31, 2011—The human hand has five digits, 27 bones, and a complicated system of nearly 80 tendons and muscles, and Peggy Haase and Skip Brown have spent the last 20 years caring for each and every one of them. Haase and Brown were the first occupational therapists at Vanderbilt University Medical Center to become certified hand...
Cyril Stewart finds labor of love in Franklin Theatre
May. 31, 2011—Cyril Stewart is a guy who appreciates old theaters. “My wife and I had our first date at the Belle Meade Theater,” he says, referring to the gone-but-still-lamented movie palace on Harding Road in Nashville. “She was 15, I was 16.” Later, when he was studying architecture at the University of Tennessee, he was involved...
New hardwoods, new neighbors
May. 31, 2011—Right after the flood, Regina Bailey temporarily had to move her belongings to her lawn. And one night a police patrol caught someone trying to loot some of it. Bailey, a medical receptionist in the Emergency Department at Vanderbilt University Hospital, was only recently summoned as a witness in the trial. In Bailey’s East Nashville...
Turning something bad into something good
May. 31, 2011—On May 2, 2010, Harold “Cookie” Warpool stood in the basement of The Vanderbilt Clinic with water above his knees for nine hours. A year later, the plant services employee says the facility is nicer than it has ever been. “We took something bad and made something good out of it,” Warpool says of the...
Grateful for support
May. 27, 2011—Chris Carey, M.D., a General Surgery resident, is ready to make a fresh start in Oklahoma City. Carey’s time in Nashville has been hard. In August 2009 his wife of 13 years, Niki, died from liver cancer. In May 2010 the Nashville flood wiped out his Bellevue home. Four months later, as he was moving...
Sunday dinner tradition is back
May. 27, 2011—Barbara Carr couldn’t wait to get back to hosting Sunday dinners. It had been a tradition in her family for as long as she could remember. All of that changed when the May floods took over her home, leaving her with only the clothes on her back. “It was a task,” said an exasperated Carr,...