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June 24, 2014

Integrating Therapies for a Healing Touch

At Lightbridge our Care Team is constantly looking for ways to improve and grow in the way we care for and manage patients and their families.  This means staying up to date on new and current trends and branching off into what can seem like unfamiliar territory.  When we were …

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June 24, 2014

The Case for Palliative Care

Patient X is a 59-year-old woman with kidney disease. Thirty years ago, she’d likely be dead. But today, thanks to medical advances and high-tech treatment, she’s had nine lives. For most of those lives, she’s been in and out of the hospital, often being saved from the brink of death, …

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April 9, 2014

Dr. Nancy Snyderman: My Life as a Caregiver

Six years ago my siblings and I decided it was time for our parents to live closer to family. So at the ages of 80 and 84, my parents moved from Fort Wayne, Indiana, where I grew up, to Princeton, New Jersey, where I live now. I was relieved to …

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