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Patient Story
What Will the X-ray Say?
Oct 15, 2020 https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2020/10/What-will-the-X-ray-sayRebecca is understandably nervous. In less than a week, she will travel the 29 miles from her St. Peters, Missouri, home with her 13-year-old son, Joey, to Shriners Hospitals for Children — St. Louis for his yearly follow-up. Joey will leave his mom in the waiting room, and a radiology technician wi...
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Patient Story
Successful Chest Wall Reconstruction Allows Patient to Pursue His Dreams
Aug 31, 2020 https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2020/08/Successful-chest-wall-reconstruction-allows-patient-to-pursue-his-dreamsZachary's proper diagnosis of a rare chest wall condition, Currarino-Silverman syndrome, leads to reconstructive surgery that changes his life.
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Patient Story
Salt Lake City Family is Leaders in Care Cover Story
Sep 23, 2020 https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2020/09/Salt-Lake-City-family-is-Leaders-in-Care-cover-storyShriners Hospitals for Children — Salt Lake City is pleased to announce two of its patients and their family is featured on the cover of the latest fall edition of Leaders in CARE – a quarterly, national magazine sharing stories of the most amazing care anywhere, from Shriners Hospitals for Children...
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Patient Story
First of its Kind Legislative Bill Extends Physical Therapy Visits
Jan 12, 2021 https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2021/01/First-of-its-kind-legislative-bill-extends-physical-therapy-visitsLegislators serving in the Utah State Legislative Session will soon gather at the Utah State Capitol to consider myriad matters of importance. They do so knowing they may never bear witness to the individual beneficiaries of the policies they put in place..
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Patient Story
Show Me That Smile
Jan 08, 2021 https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2021/01/Show-me-that-smileIt was an ordinary afternoon in the lunch room of a Rochester, New York, elementary school, and all Ryan wanted to do was eat an apple like his classmates.
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Patient Story
Kiera's Successful Surgery Sends Her Leaping Back to Ballet
Dec 10, 2020 https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2020/12/Kieras-successful-surgery-sends-her-leaping-back-to-balletWhen Kiera turned 11, she began to experience back pain. While her pain wasn’t necessarily severe, it was adequate enough to warrant a trip to her primary care provider. Once her physician noticed not one, but two curves in Kiera’s spine, she was immediately referred to the Portland Shriners Hospita...
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Patient Story
Sharon's Story
Dec 29, 2020 https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2020/12/Sharons-storyFourteen-year-old Sharon’s journey with the Boston Shriners Hospital began this past October after she suffered a terrible injury at a barn where she frequently rides horses.
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Patient Story
Leufry’s Story
Jul 27, 2022 https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2022/07/Leufrys-StoryLaser technology provides innovative approaches to burns.
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Patient Story
Former Patient Trains in Burn Care at Shriners Children's Northern California
Nov 05, 2024 https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/Patient-Stories/2024/11/Nahomis-Burn-Care-StoryNahomi Barragan-Carmona, M.D., recently returned to the world’s leading pediatric burn hospital to learn more about advanced skills in burn treatment from the medical team that saved her life.
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News
Halloween Costumes Can Be Scary – Burn Survivors Are Not
Oct 23, 2024 https://www.shrinerschildrens.org/en/News-and-Media/News/2024/10/Halloween-Burn-SurvivorsRegrettably, society often uses the portrayal of burn scarring as a visual cue to label characters as monstrous.
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