Jeanine Morelli, an active 41-year-old mother of two, had sudden, severe back pain. When she started to experience excruciating pain down her left leg, she knew something wasn’t right. After multiple trips to her doctor and then a visit to Mather Hospital’s Emergency Room, she was referred to the Hospital’s Back & Neck Pain Center.…
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When Barry Gilmore’s wife first told him about Mather Hospital’s Lung Cancer Screening Program, he didn’t want to go. Barry, 71, is a smoker whose father died of lung cancer at 62. His mother passed away from COPD. And although he had quit smoking for 12 years, he slipped back into it after his mother…
Working in construction for 40 years as a union electrician, Arnaldo Ortiz was used to having back pain. “Sometimes it would get better and sometimes it would get worse,” he said. He tried different types of treatment but nothing helped. He read about the Back & Neck Pain Center seminar at Mather Hospital and decided…
“I felt a lump in my left breast for two years. I was tested and when the results came back my gynecologist said I want you to see this surgeon, Dr. (Randall) Schrager,” said Jacqueline Guagliano of Farmingville. “This was in April 2003. My doctor said, yes, it’s cancer. I’ll never forget – my whole…