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A Pathway to Healing: How Interventional Radiology Transforms Patient Care

At St. Dominic Health, innovation meets compassion in a specialty that’s quietly changing lives every day: interventional radiology.  “It’s more than advanced technology,” says Scott McPherson, MD, interventional radiologist and co-medical director of St. Dominic...

Precision and Peace of Mind: How Robotic Surgery Helped One Man Beat Throat Cancer 

John was sitting in his deer stand in Mississippi when he first noticed a small lump beneath his jawline. At 69 years old and a practicing pharmacist with more than four decades of experience, he assumed it was nothing serious, likely just a lymph node still reacting...

A Smarter Scalpel: Elevating Surgical Care with AI-Powered Robotics 

Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System is ushering in a new era of surgery with the addition of nine da Vinci 5 robotic systems, the most advanced generation of surgical robots available today. Equipped with artificial intelligence, responsive touch and...

The Meaning of Cancer Survivorship at St. Dominic

Cancer survivorship doesn’t begin when the last treatment ends. It begins the moment a person hears the words, “You have cancer.” That’s the philosophy guiding oncology survivorship navigator Jimmie Wells, MSN, RN, OCN, and her work at St. Dominic Hospital. Cancer...