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Brain Surgery Minimizes Essential Tremors for Longtime Lincoln Memorial Hospital Volunteer

For 20 years, Alan Kline, now 76, had tried a number of different medications to control the essential tremors that increasingly complicated simple tasks like eating, drinking or writing. The eleven-year volunteer at Lincoln Memorial Hospital (LMH) grew increasingly isolated…

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Aug 14

Volunteering Keeps Longtime Memorial Employee Young at Heart

Wilma Fricke loves Memorial Medical Center and always has—from the time she started at Memorial as a nurse in 1947, to her retirement in 1990, to her “second career” as a volunteer beginning in 2000. During her work as head…

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Jul 18

Why One Volunteer Shares His Time with Hospice Patients

When Kent Hill’s wife of 32 years, Sandy, was diagnosed with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), an incurable nerve disease also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, he felt alone. With no nearby family and a spouse facing a terminal illness, Kent…

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Brain Surgery Minimizes Essential Tremors for Longtime Lincoln Memorial Hospital Volunteer

Volunteering Keeps Longtime Memorial Employee Young at Heart

Why One Volunteer Shares His Time with Hospice Patients

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