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Inspiring patient gives new meaning to the term “medical history”
Every three weeks, Ola Ferla spends a couple hours in the Smilow Cancer Hospital Apheresis unit, getting treated for a type of lymphoma.
While physicians ask her questions, nurses and other staff buzz around her, taking vital signs, placing IVs and connecting Ferla to the machine that removes and treats her blood, then reintroduces it into her body.
Ferla is unfazed by any of this, perhaps because she used to be a nurse – during World War II.