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JUNE 2023 • ISSUE 282
HEALTHY SUMMER 10 Ways to Improve Your Health This Summer PRACTICING IN AUBURN
Robert Nolan, longtime Syracuse orthopedic spine surgeon, now treating patients at Auburn Community. He discusses spinal fusion surgery, other procedures. P. 4
Hospitals 10 (Actually Fun) Continue to Things to Do with Close Your
19 hospitals closed last year due to bankruptcy. Another 630 are on the brink of financial disaster this year. P 6
Kids
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5 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW Recently launched first Barbie doll with Down syndrome was modeled after a college graduate from Syracuse. P 9
ARTHRITIS
Interview with physician Daniel Alexander, medical director of orthopedics and chief administrative officer for Auburn Community Hospital. P. 21
Helping Remove the Stigma of
VITILIGO
Upstate resident was diagnosed with the condition at age 25. Now 52, she has become an advocate for those who suffer from it. “We are all in this together,” she says. P.16