Shining Star of Perseverance - Assurant Employee Benefits
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Honorees |
2006 Shining Star of Perseverance
Jeff Matovic, a non-doctor who researched his own surgical cure for Tourette Syndrome and spent years searching for a doctor who would agree to perform the surgery. Matovic suffered such severe and constant convulsions that he could not hold a glass still long enough to drink from it. Yet he managed to research a procedure involving brain surgery that he was convinced would alleviate his symptoms. Numerous doctors refused his pleas to perform the procedure until physicians at University Hospitals of Cleveland finally agreed in February 2004. The surgery was successful and Matovic has been symptom-free since.
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