First-year residents got a tour of Chicago's South Side from @6figga_dilla to learn more about the people and community they'll care for at UChicago Medicine.
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- Healthcare workers are heroes. Have an encouraging message you want to send? Let us know! Any art from kids you'd like us to share? Send us a direct message. Together, through staying home, donating blood, supporting workers, and more, we can make #thousandsofdifferences.
- Today in slime news: the fossilized slime of a 100-million-year-old hagfish shook up the vertebrate family tree. ms.spr.ly/6013TBfqU
- On Thanksgiving Day, our transplant teams performed two successful heart transplants. This brings our total number of heart transplants in 2021 to 55, an institution record.
- We would like to congratulate the @chicagosky on another hard-fought and exciting season. We can't wait to see you next year!
- For years, @wnbachicagosky star Diamond DeShields struggled with an eye condition called #keratoconus. UChicago Medicine specialists fitted her in specialized lenses, which have improved her focus on and off the court. ms.spr.ly/6018Tyh26
- The UChicago Medicine Neurocritical Care Unit is excited to be the first medical center in Chicago to bring a portable MRI device to patients’ bedsides for better understanding of the early effects of traumatic brain injuries.
- A historic first: UChicago Medicine transplant teams performed back-to-back triple transplants within 27 hours. Two 29-year-old patients from Michigan and Illinois are recovering following transplants to replace their failing hearts, livers and kidneys. ms.spr.ly/6017TB603
- Twelve couples got vaccinated today in @UChicagoMed’s COVID-19 vaccine clinic. Meet longtime sweethearts Dorothy and Lloyd, who’ve been married for 50 years and live on the South Side. They even wore red for the occasion. #COVID19Vaccine
- Chicago’s newest adult emergency department opens on the 29th. This morning we’re celebrating the completion of this project. #AtTheForefront
- Listen to Dr. @emilymicheleL's address about the importance of staying home during today's #COVID19 press conference here:
- After a long journey, 8-year-old Carter Fortin rang a big brass bell, marking the end of chemotherapy treatment for a brain tumor at UChicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital.
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