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40 years later, bonds, pain persist at Saint Elizabeth burn unit
- By RILEY JOHNSON / Lincoln Journal Star
- Dec 22, 2013
- Dec 22, 2013
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Matt Kreikemeier jokes with physical therapist Michelle Thompson as he walks through the burn unit at Saint Elizabeth Regional Medical Center on Nov. 20, 2013.
- ERIC GREGORY/Lincoln Journal Star
Hospital staff treat a burn patient in the tub room of St. Elizabeth's Community Health Center burn unit in 1979. In the tub room, nurses scrub healing skin to remove charred skin and keep infection at bay.
- TED KIRK/Lincoln Journal Star file
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