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It sounds miraculous, but when one neurosurgeon in the Bronx recently came to the rescue of an ailing cardiologist from the Ukraine thousands of sick children half a world away were better for it. Laughter is good medicine now for 32-year-old Ulyana Melnick. Brain surgery saved her life less than a week ago. The young cardiologist, who has spent years performing life-saving operations on children, had just arrived here in the States for advanced medical training from her home in Odessa.

Ukraine Cardiologist Saved By Bronx Neurosurgeon