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Humans of New York Post Sums Up Everything We Love About Nurses

Humans of New York Post Sums Up Everything We Love About Nurses

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Humans of New York Post Sums Up Everything We Love About Nurses

This week, Humans of New York creator Brandon Stanton left the streets of New York City for a different setting — the Pediatrics Department of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He’s been sharing the stories of patients and their families, but one post in particular summed up everything we love about nurses. “The MDs build the [...]

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'Humans of New York' Features Man Who Thought Anxiety Wasn’t 'Real'

You never know when life will turn the tables on you. Today, Humans of New York, the wildly popular photo-based Facebook page, posted the story of a man who made fun of a woman with anxiety in high school. What he learned since then made him give her a call. (function(d, s, id) { var js, [...]

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Melissa McGlensey

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Viral Photo of Refugee Family Shows How War Has Affected a Boy With Autism

A recent Humans of New York post has been receiving a lot of attention online. It features a photo of a refugee family from Turkey with a quote from the mother explaining how the war made it so that she could no longer get autism therapy for her son. // “He cried a lot as [...]

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The Internet's Moving Response to This Man's 5th Cancer Diagnosis

The Internet's Moving Response to This Man's 5th Cancer Diagnosis

Margaret Lenker

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The Internet's Moving Response to This Man's 5th Cancer Diagnosis

Photographer Brandon Stanton’s popular “Humans of New York” Facebook page has hit a home run once again in its quest to share honest, real-life stories of New Yorkers. In one of its latests posts (below), a man in Yankee Stadium opened up to Stanton about his experience with cancer. (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = [...]