Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas
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Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas is a tertiary care facility located in the Vickery Meadow area of Dallas, Texas
, United States
. The hospital, which opened in 1966, has 866 beds and around 1,200 physicians. The hospital is the largest business within Vickery Meadow.
Texas
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, United States
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. The hospital, which opened in 1966, has 866 beds and around 1,200 physicians. The hospital is the largest business within Vickery Meadow.
Notable patients
- John McClamrockJohn McClamrockJohn McClamrock was a Dallas high school American football player who received media attention and sympathy from many Americans after an accident that left him with near-total paralysis in 1973....
- American high school footballAmerican footballAmerican football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
player injured during a game and paralyzed for the remainder of his life.