NBA player & former Stanford patient revisits Hospital
October 29, 2008Ronny Turiaf, an NBA player with a big heart, owes his life to Stanford Hospital.
After several seasons with the Lakers, Turiaf joined the Golden State Warriors this summer. No stranger to the Bay Area, he recently paid a visit to Stanford Hospital’s Dr. Craig Miller.
In 2005 the Lakers sent Turiaf to Stanford Hospital because of his enlarged aortic root. Miller found that, without surgery, Turiaf could not only never play basketball again, but was risking his life. Miller implanted a graft to save the aortic valve, which has allowed Turiaf to continue his career.
Turiaf calls Miller simply as “The man who saved me.”
To read more about how the people at Stanford Hospital make a difference, read Warriors’ new big man Turiaf is all heart.