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PATIENT STORIES Taking Back Childhood From Epilepsy

Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento

After Sammy began to have seizures, his happy-go-lucky attitude began to fade. He and his parents couldn’t control epilepsy with medications alone, so they turned to Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento. And after one surgery, Sammie hasn’t had a seizure since.

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