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Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery Helps Tom Return to the Basketball Court

Tom Caspari thought he was too healthy to have a heart attack.

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Dr. Stewart Gets a “Second Chance at Life” After Heart Attack

Todd Stewart, MD, is no stranger to critically ill patients and life-saving procedures. As a spinal neurosurgeon and chief of neurosurgery at Missouri Baptist Medical Center, it’s all in a day’s work. But it came as a shock when he suffered a life-threatening heart attack last year.

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Sarah & Andrew Navigate the NICU After Birth of Twin Boys

Sarah and Andrew Sapperstein were looking forward to being parents and were overjoyed and shocked to discover that they were having twins. As the months passed, Sarah's pregnancy was going smoothly, and they planned to welcome their babies by cesarean section (C-section) at 38 weeks.

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Kristina Finds Advice & Encouragement at MoBap’s Support Groups

At the top of Kristina Skinner’s to-do list when she was pregnant with her first baby was to learn about breastfeeding. In preparation for her new arrival, Kristina attended Missouri Baptist Medical Center’s breastfeeding class, where she learned the basics of breastfeeding and received information about pumping.Then as her due date approached, Kristina and her husband, Nathan, finished the nursery and eagerly awaited the arrival of their first child. “I felt prepared for delivery, breastfeeding and becoming a mom.”

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MoBap Offers a New FDA-Approved Treatment for People With Advanced Prostate Cancer

 On March 23, 2022, prostate cancer treatment for those with advanced disease took a step forward with the FDA approving the first targeted therapy for the treatment of progressive, PSMA-positive prostate cancer that has spread or metastasized to other parts of the body. Missouri Baptist Medical Center is one of three sites in Missouri that is currently offering this treatment.

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Altruism

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Anxiety, PTSD:

Anxiety screen - Mental Health America

Burnout:

Workplace Burnout Quiz from Christina Maslach and Michael Leitner, courtesy of Scientific American.

Depression:

Anyone can experience depression, including physicians,and especially in medical training. Rate yourself with this Depression screen. 

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Empathy:

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Mindfulness

Mindfulness Quiz from Greater Good Science Center.

Physical Fitness:

4 part physical fitness test - Mayo Clinic

PTSD:

This PTSD Screen  from the PTSD Association of Canada

Relationship Trust:

Relationship Trust Quiz - Greater Good Science Center

Self-compassion:

Perfectionistic? Hard on yourself? Rate your level of self-compassion from the website of Kristin Neff, PhD, creator of the validated self-compassion scale.

Sleepiness:

Sleepiness Scale - Epworth Scale.

Stress:

Stress screen - Mental Health America

Substance use:

Evaluate your beliefs, attitudes and behaviors concerning alcohol use - National Institute on Alcohol Abuse

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