Patient Stories

“Everyone who took care of me did an amazing job.”

When heart failure struck an active husband and father, a transplant saved his life. Michal Duchnowski had just come home from a ...

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“I knew right away that I was where I needed to be. My experience there was head and shoulders above the care I had received anywhere else.”

With an active life that included participation in college athletics, the U.S. Navy, the Marine Corps, and 25 years as a priest, ...

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"Heart and Kidney Transplant Recipient Gets Two Second Chances At Life"

Jean Smith lives by the phrase “live every day like your last” after going through radiation and chemotherapy for cancer and ...

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There are over a million words in the English language and not one comes close to expressing how I feel about the staff at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center.

At the age of 18, I was diagnosed with a congenital heart disease called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy - the same condition that ...

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"It’s amazing; I can go up and down stairs without having to catch my breath. I started doing exercises two days after the surgery. My energy level came right back.”

An inherited heart problem had taken a terrible toll on Barbara Schempp’s family: her 66-year-old brother died of it in 2010 and ...

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“When I am not managing the ride, I am thinking about managing the ride,” said Gerald. “It is important to be able to work while I wait for my transplant.”

Gerald , 66 of Staten Island, has been passionate about running the Cyclone rollercoaster at Coney Island for 35 years. With the ...

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When it was determined that Peter had end-stage heart failure but otherwise in reasonably good health, his name was added to the heart transplant list.

Waiting for a heart transplant and given only a few months to live, Peter optimistically ordered the tuxedo for his daughter’s ...

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"No one had more confidence in the health care provided at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center than my mother, Esther Shilling."

My two brothers and I were all born at The Beth and for more than 20 years, our mother proudly served as a registered nurse ...

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“I have so much energy now,” says Jerzy, who is looking for a part-time job because he can’t sit still anymore. “Drs. Camacho, Zucker and Baran are amazing – they saved my life!”

A self-described “sports freak,” and avid soccer player turned referee, Jerzy , 57, is accustomed to running long distances up ...

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