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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 Stabilization and Conservation Service of Dodge County for 10 years. She then worked for the Mayo Clini...

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 suffering,” says Dr Awad. “For years, even with high dosages of anti-arrhythmia drugs, she would have a ...

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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 smaller and smarter and smarter.” These life-saving devices stabilize heart rhythms by applying electric...