Remembering Richmond's Nicole Killian: 'She Made the World a

Nicole Killian was especially proud of the time she saved a woman's toes. A patient arrived at the emergency room with frostbitten feet so severe that staff were considering amputation. But Nicole, then a nurse practitioner at Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital in Plattsburgh, N.Y., objected. Instead, she committed to pouring gradually warmer water on the patient's feet for hours until they thawed.

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