Former heart patient returns to Akron Children's as student nurse

Chandrakant R. Patel, MD, a pediatric cardiologist at Akron Children's, discusses the story of Bernadette Fresty, a Kent State nursing student currently rounding through the hospital who was born with a rare heart defect that was treated by Dr. Patel and the team at the Heart Center.

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