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Passed away on January 10, 2024 at 92 yrs old. Born December 2, 1931 in West Concord MN to Mamie (Raleigh) and Louis Leach. She and her 3 sisters were raised on a farm and she graduated from West Concord HS in 1949. Darlene then worked in Minneapolis for Dayton’s and Maytag before returning to West Concord where she married and had 4 children with Darrell Miller. They later divorced, tasking her with raising and putting the children through college alone. She worked for the US Agricultural Sta...

It was a case no one else was ready to take on – a heart condition so rare that even the Mayo Clinic has recorded just 30 cases in the past 20 years – and a patient with a history of going into cardiac arrest during surgical procedures. But for Dr Khaled Awad, Electrophysiologist and Interventional Cardiologist at Clemenceau Medical Center Hospital (CMC Hospital), it was a chance to give a woman her life back. “Everybody was telling her, ‘we can’t do it’, but she was really sufferin...

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North Shore Medical Center to dislay Linda Werbner Sign up for the Swampscott Reporter’s newsletter. “Ginormous” is the word cardiologist Dr. Lawrence Block used to describe the bulky, near-hockey puck sized pacemakers of the early 1960s that came with batteries. Compared to today’s tiny pill-size devices, his description says a lot about the speed of technology. “Over the last three decades there have been tremendous improvements,” said Block. “They’ve gotten smaller and smalle...