https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs_LynP25RQ&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=27 Elizabeth Brown was not a typical teenager. An exceptional student, she left home at fifteen to start college early. She made the dean’s list and even earned an opportunity to study abroad at Oxford University.  She was also a talented musician. She played piano and guitar, and...

Elizabeth Nicks was a 12-year-old cheerleader. One day, during an aerial move, she fell to the ground when her fellow cheerleaders lost their grip.  A spotter was not in...

The pain began in Gary Rushford's foot and slowly slithered up to his heel, then his calf and then his thigh. It moved with all the deliberate relentlessness of...

As told by Harry Jordan:I was brought into surgery at Long Beach Hospital (where I was a Board Trustee) in late 1982 when x-rays revealed that my right kidney...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbB-23A9mdo&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=22 Holly Harris enjoyed a career in social services and healthcare as a staff trainer for a child abuse prevention agency in San Diego. She had a very hands-on role...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AtW2WO3iKM Janet Garner's routine spleen removal surgery was completed without incident.  After recovery, she left the hospital relieved, thinking that her medical woes had been taken care of.  Years later, however, an...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcaQfzxJJ4Q&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=25 Jennifer Ha was a Vietnamese refugee and the matriarch of her thirteen-person household. She had orchestrated her family’s escape from Vietnam. At 38, she ran the family business, two...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4OQlvxheJQ&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=36 A few days before Halloween, 7-year-old Jessie Geyer began to feel lousy. She had a high fever and severe leg pain. It was bad enough feeling sick, but the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qla2qBNdIOw&list=PL_fFbgGe88MrISnwyZw63R7WkFuPP1NAz&index=32 Joe Allen is a U.S. Army veteran who proudly served our country as a Specialist/Combat Engineer in the Kosovo conflict. In civilian terms, Joe blew things up. Honorably discharged...

Just before Christmas two years ago, John Enzenauer, 39, came home from his blue-collar job feeling lousy. He didn't worry much about it: Just a mild case of the...