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Patients and caregivers reunite at event
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Ronnie Green Heart Center registered nurses Lauren Wilson, left, and Kelly Sisson talks Friday with heart attack survivors Melvin Reeves, second from right, and Rex Sims at the STEMI Summit at the Gainesville Civic Center. - photo by Tom Reed
When health care workers heal a patient, they often don’t get a chance to see how the patients do after they leave the hospital. And the patients don’t always get to thank all of the men and women who saved their lives. But Friday afternoon, two patients who suffered what would surely have been a life-altering — if not life-ending — heart attack got the opportunity to tell the men and women who worked together to save their lives how they feel.
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Gainesville’s Ukrainian refugees fearful of future under Trump administration
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Ukrainian war refugees gather at Open Heaven Church Wednesday, March 13, 2025, to discuss their current plight in the U.S. and the possibility of their Temporary Protected Status being removed. - photo by Scott Rogers
When Yehor Kuznietsov speaks about the war, he stares pensively into the distance as if recounting a terrible dream.
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