{"id":11935,"date":"2025-02-07T20:13:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T20:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/?p=11935"},"modified":"2025-02-07T20:13:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T20:13:16","slug":"patient-testimonial-agostino-romano-says-if-it-wasnt-for-dr-mckenzie-id-be-dead-after-dr-katherine-mckenzie-saved-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/patient-testimonial-agostino-romano-says-if-it-wasnt-for-dr-mckenzie-id-be-dead-after-dr-katherine-mckenzie-saved-his-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Patient Testimonial \u2013 Agostino Romano says, “If it wasn\u2019t for Dr. McKenzie, I\u2019d be dead”, after Dr. Katherine McKenzie Saved His Life."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cIf it wasn\u2019t for Dr. McKenzie, I\u2019d be dead\u201d, is what Agostino Romano said after his experience at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center. Mr. Romano has been a patient of Dr. Katherine McKenzie for the last four years. He was first seen by her to treat perforated appendicitis in 2021. During this time, Dr. McKenzie observed that Mr. Romano wasn\u2019t responding well to standard treatment. She suspected an underlying malignancy and investigated further. Dr. McKenzie diagnosed Mr. Romano with a rare and aggressive cancer called Burkitt\u2019s lymphoma.<\/p>\n

Mr. Romano received treatment for the cancer and has been in remission. He returned to see Dr. McKenzie for surgery, an abdominal wall reconstruction with a component separation in 2023. He recovered and is doing well. He continues to see Dr. McKenzie every four to six months. He is back at work and has been able to resume his passions which include cooking and sharing Italian food. He has even made trips to see his family in Italy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t go to any other hospital. I\u2019ve formed a bond with them,\u201d Mr. Romano said of Dr. McKenzie and her team. Born in Italy, Mr. Romano lives with his wife of 30 years in Ozone Park, Queens. Despite the surgeries and cancer diagnosis, Mr. Romano keeps a positive perspective: \u201cI have nothing but great things to say, even in the dark times.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf it wasn\u2019t for Dr. McKenzie, I\u2019d be dead\u201d, is what Agostino Romano said after his experience at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center. Mr. Romano has been a patient of Dr. Katherine McKenzie for the last four years. He was first … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[868],"tags":[2139],"class_list":["post-11935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jamaica-hospital","tag-patient-testimonial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11937,"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11935\/revisions\/11937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}