Duly Stories

For Nurse Prac­ti­tion­er Saman­tha P., her jour­ney in health­care has come full cir­cle. She returned to the same office where she was once a patient, work­ing along­side Duly fam­i­ly med­i­cine physi­cian, Dr. Scott Love, who has been her pri­ma­ry care physi­cian since she was just three months old.

Moments before he col­lapsed, Lar­ry L. felt some­thing was wrong. What hap­pened next is a blur, but one thing remains crys­tal clear — that sin­gle moment for­ev­er altered the course of his life.

Michael S., 52, has always bal­anced his career as a com­put­er spe­cial­ist with fam­i­ly and adven­ture. As emp­ty nesters, he and his wife, Tina, enjoy trav­el­ing, stay­ing active and cheer­ing on their daugh­ter, a col­le­giate vol­ley­ball play­er. How­ev­er, Michael’s life took an unex­pect­ed turn dur­ing a vis­it with friends. 

For Jim Z., an active 61-year-old, feel­ing wind­ed after rou­tine activ­i­ties seemed like a nor­mal part of aging. But a day of base­ball drills with his son changed everything.

Sherry’s sto­ry began with an unex­pect­ed nudge — a pain on her left side while exer­cis­ing that just didn’t sit right. ​“I hadn’t had a mam­mo­gram in three years. Life hap­pens — there was the pan­dem­ic, my kids had health­care needs, and, like most moms, I for­got about myself. But some­thing was telling me this pain wasn’t normal.”

Tiffany is an open book when she talks about her health jour­ney — and how a pain­less, pen­cil-eras­er-sized lump in her breast led to a breast can­cer diag­no­sis that she says changed her life…for the better.

At just 43 years old and on a trip with friends to New Orleans, Bill began suf­fer­ing from debil­i­tat­ing back pain and what he thought was heart­burn. With a mis­sion of just mak­ing it home, he had no idea that the pain he was expe­ri­enc­ing was a heart attack. Just two months after surgery, Bill and his inter­ven­tion­al car­di­ol­o­gist, Dr. Abdul Sankari, share his sto­ry and how oth­ers can avoid heart disease.