We Stand For Care

Imagine yourself in a rush to get to your knitting class on time. You approach your friend’s house where the class will be held, your arms circling a bag full of knitting needles. In your haste, you trip on the front porch, and suddenly you feel a piercing pain in your chest—the worst pain in your life.

You look down to see the broken end of a foot-long wooden knitting needle, about the width of a drinking straw, sticking out of your chest where your heart is.

This may sound like a horror story, but it actually happened to Ellin Klor in 2006.

She was rushed to Stanford Hospital & Clinics’ Level 1 trauma center—the only one of its kind in the Peninsula and South Bay. Coming to Ellin’s rescue, trauma surgeon Susan Brundage, MD, removed the needle from Ellin’s heart. Despite the frighteningly low survival odds, Ellin was home within a few days.

It was not only Stanford Hospital & Clinics surgeons who responded to Ellin’s emergency. With astuteness and top-notch training, a radiologist diagnosed a new cancer that otherwise may have gone undetected. The COMMITMENT and TEAMWORK exhibited by Dr. Brundage and the trauma and radiology staff, served to MAKE A DIFFERENCE by saving Ellin’s life.

Ellin is forever grateful for the COMPASSIONATE CARE that she received from the team at Stanford Hospital & Clinics.

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