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Boston Marathon Amputees Face New Reality
The Wall Street Journal – April 18, 2013
Amputees and patients with major trauma to extremities face potentially long recoveries...
What Surgery Can Do For An Athlete's Bad Break
The Wall Street Journal – April 1, 2013
The horrific leg injury suffered by Louisville basketball player Kevin Ware on the court Sunday is a rare event in sports, but it is more commonplace in the world of orthopedic surgeons, who regularly see such fractures among victims of car accidents and other trauma...
University of Louisville guard Kevin Ware is up and on crutches less than 24 hours after his horrific fall
WABC-TV News – April 1, 2013
Dr. David Helfet, of Hospital for Special Surgery, says as bad as the injury may seem, a clean break of the bones is easier to recover from than a complex injury of the knee and the surrounding ligaments....
Giving Back to Those Who Got Her Back on Her Feet
HSS – January 31, 2012
Nancy Abbate returned to Hospital for Special Surgery, this time as a volunteer in ambulatory surgery, working first one day and then three days a week. "When I realized that I could walk again, I wanted to give something back," says Nancy...
Haitian Earthquake Survivor Marks Two-Year Anniversary
NY1 – January 13, 2012
In this segment on NY1, Darline Bertil who lost both her hands in the 2009 Haitian earthquake, spoke about her recovery with Inside City Hall's Errol Louis...
After Nightmarish Crash, Safety's N.F.L. Dream Lives On
The New York Times – November 27, 2011
At Hospital for Special Surgery, Chad Jones was under the care of Dr. David Helfet, the director of orthopedic trauma service....
Eye of the Storm
Advance for Nurses – February 16, 2010
Long after the world's attention has turned from the earthquake disaster in Haiti, its people and the devastation will linger in the memory of a team of dedicated nurses at Manhattan's Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS)....
NY medical team arrives in Haiti on a borrowed wing
Crain's New York Business – January 18, 2010
A team of nine doctors, three nurses and two surgical technicians from the Hospital for Special Surgery arrived in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday on a borrowed corporate jet. Dr. Soumitra Eachempati, the head of emergency medicine from New York-Presbyterian Hospital, also traveled with the team....
Hospital for Special Surgery Orthopedic Trauma Team On the Ground in Haiti
– January 18, 2010
A team of anesthesiologists, nurses and orthopedic trauma surgeons from Hospital for Special Surgery headed for Haiti on Friday and have been performing surgery and tending to those impacted by the earthquake ever since...
New Jersey Man's Leg Rebuilt
WEMZ-TV 69News – November 3, 2008
It's the kind of news no parent wants to hear. After a serious accident, one New Jersey mom was told her son's leg might be amputated. But her determination drove her to find an alternative. WFMZ's Jaccii Farris has the story....
Ga$ Fuels E.R. Boom 'Cycle'
NY Post – August 4, 2008
As gas prices continue to soar, another statistic is also swelling: the number of cyclists and scooter enthusiasts that end up in the E.R....