When a doctor turns patient: For years he helped people recover from strokes, then he had one
CHICAGO — As a medical provider, Dr. Mahesh Ramachandran encouraged his patients to keep working as hard as they could in physical therapy, knowing that more effort could yield more results.
But then, he became a patient himself. And it left him with a new appreciation for the neurological work the patients put in every day as part of their rehabilitation.
Ramachandran, the chief medical officer of Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital in Wheaton, Illinois, landed in recovery there after suffering a stroke over Memorial Day weekend.
It caused
