Patient Stories

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When extreme curvature of his spine made Corbin Mock’s future uncertain, the Texas teen and his family turned to experts at Och Spine at NewYork-Presbyterian, hoping one day he might live a life free from additional spine surgery.

When Mike Miranda’s only kidney began to fail, his sister, NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia neurologist Dr. Caroline Miranda, stepped in as his living donor, giving him the gift of life.

When a bungee cord snapped and struck her eye, nurse Irene Fico turned to the ophthalmology team at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, hoping they could preserve her sight. After a series of surgeries, they gave her close to perfect vision and helped her maintain it over a decade of care.

With pioneering innovations in diagnosis and treatment for retinoblastoma, the ophthalmology oncology team at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center gave a mother and daughter the gift of vision and hope for the future.

After substance use and an untreated mental health disorder upended his life, Austin decided to enter NewYork-Presbyterian Westchester Behavioral Health’s addiction rehabilitation program. Today, he lives a life of purpose in sobriety.

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With a large mass growing in Finnley’s neck and chest and threatening to block his airway before he was born, specialists performed a rare EXIT procedure, partially delivering the baby and immediately beginning lifesaving treatment.

In a rare procedure last year, a multidisciplinary transplant team at NewYork-Presbyterian performed the state’s first heart, double lung, and liver transplant.

Born with a condition that stunted the growth of her face, Jade Metivier and her family turned to NewYork-Presbyterian for the complex surgical treatment she needed to breathe, speak and smile properly.

While navigating grief and falling in love, the novelist and screenwriter discovered she had leukemia – and turned to her doctor at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center to help her beat it.