Lisa Abbot was sent to Harborview for emergency, life-saving treatment by its world-renowned neurosurgeons. Her surgical team was led by Dr. Laligam Sekhar, vice chairman of Neurological Surgery and a UW professor of Neurological Surgery. By the time she arrived at Harborview, she was in a coma.
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At first, Jamie Youngquist's doctors near her home in Lake Stevens, Wash., thought she had an ear infection. When the ringing got worse a few weeks later, her doctors ordered a magnetic resonance imaging scan of the left side of her brain.
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A local physician discovered what looked like a tumor on Pam Nelson's spine. A few phone calls later, she was under the care of a team at Harborview, led by two internationally renowned physicians.
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Gloria Jiminez and Luis Francisco Espinoza knew something was wrong with their 3-year-old Morelia when she suddenly became very quiet. “We tried to make her talk, but she wouldn’t answer,” said Espinoza, 35, of Wenatchee.
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UW Medicine Neurological Surgery is based at Harborview Medical Center and UW Medical Center in Seattle, Washington, and at Eastside Specialty Center in Bellevue, Washington