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SYLVANIA HERALD ARTICLE
"The Dr. Georges Jabaly Show" is on
the air! Listen and call in with your questions for the doctor
every
Saturday morning from 8:30 to 9:00 on WCWA 1230 AM in Toledo.
Note:
Dr. Jabaly has since concluded his program. Thank you
to all that tuned in!
 
Dr.
Jabaly was profiled on WTVG ABC 13
during
its "People, Places and Things" segment.
The story focused on the doctor's
help for a Toledo man who was hurt
in Lebanon. Dr. Jabaly arranged for
advanced medical care and a return
trip to Toledo through the humanitarian
organization, Terre Des Hommes. He
serves as the President of the United
States Chapter.
 
Dr. Jabaly
serves as a guest lecturer for
the residency program at Mercy
College talking with residents
about family practice medicine.
 
Jan.
- Feb., 2005:
Medical Missions
Trip
"On my recent mission we sponsored
a Total Hip Replacement for a 32
year-old married woman who had
a congenital hip dislocation with
advanced osteroarthritis and severely
advanced right hip deformity. This
had restricted her activities,
her work, and she was unable to
have children due to the severity
of her hip problem. She was unable
to afford the cost of this type
of Surgery. The cost would be equal
to her and her husband's salaries
for two years.
Thankfully, we were able to cover
all of her Surgery expenses thru
our non-profit organization. Her
surgery was performed in Damascus
at the Omyayat Hospital on Jan.
31, 2005. She is now recovering
well, walking with an excellent
prognosis and looking to a much
brighter future.
We also sponsored four Corneal
Transplants on this trip with excellent
results.
These people are now seeing the
light for the first time, can you
imagine how they must feel? In
Lebanon, we visited several charitable
organizations to assist them with
their medical Needs and offered
close to 170 medical and surgical
consultations. We distributed large
amounts of medications for a variety
of chronic illnesses.
I have already started planning
and arranging for our future medical
mission trips. As always, I look
forward to each and every mission
to help give the much needed medical
care to each person in need and
to hopefully given them a much
brighter future."
 
Sylvania
Advantage Newspaper:
Board Certified Family practice
Physician Georges T. Jabaly, M.D.,
M.S.B.S. has purchased a 4,000
square foot office suite in the
Sylvania Business Park, 4405 Holland-Sylvania
Rd. Patients will be seen in the
new office the end of June.
Don Helvey of Robert F. Lindsey
Co. Realtors negotiated the sale
on behalf of Dr. Jabaly and financing
was arranged by David Reed of Signature
Bank.
The Sylvania Business Park was
developed by a partnership that
includes Mitchell Development,
Forrester Wehrle and Buckeye Commercial
Construction. Buckeye Commercial
Construction was the general contractor
for the project.
"This office will not
look like the typical medical office," Dr.
Jabaly said. "This will be
a comfortable, warm, home-like
environment where patients can
relax and be at ease to talk with
me as if they were visiting a friend," he
explained. I want to break that
barrier that seems to exist between
a doctor and patient. In my practice,
I find it important to listen to
people and address their needs," he
said.
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MN
Angels Clinic - NEWS
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Dr.
Jabaly with Mr. Joseph at MUO
The West Toledo Herald
June 7, 2006
By Mark Griffin
Herald Editor
WEST TOLEDO - Mohamed
Joseph isn't going to be going to any family picnics
this summer.
He won't be lounging poolside, sipping a cool beverage,
and he certainly won't be taking any walks in the park
with his family.
“I cannot move anywhere,” said Joseph,
69, a West Toledo resident. “I have to stay on
my back or three months - all summer long. We were
waiting to enjoy the summer. Now, I have to enjoy it
in my bed.”
Joseph, whose father, Samuel Joseph, served in the
Army during World War I, is a United States citizen
of Lebanese descent. Last month, Mohamed thought it
would be a good idea to take his daughter, Attaya,
and her husband, Jerry Gohn, on vacation to Lebanon.
"She was wishing to go back where her ancestors came
from,” said Joseph, who has a Middle Eastern
accent. “We want to see a historical place in
Lebanon. We were in more than one place. Finally, we
went to place located in central Lebanon, to a castle
built (during) the Crusades when they were in Lebanon.
It was way up in the mountains.
“We went inside that castle and it was very neglected.
No lights, no sign, no such thing. My cousin went inside
one room, very dark, and I tried to follow him up.”
That’s when Joseph’s vacation came crashing
to a halt – literally.
He fell into a hole and tumbled more than 20 feet,
severely injuring his left hip and pelvis.
“I fell on the rocks and rolled down,” he
recalled. “I waited three hours for the medical
people to pick me up.”
He was taken to a hospital in a small village nearby,
then was transferred to a hospital in Beirut. He said
he thought he would be well taken care of, especially
after identifying himself as an American citizen and
showing his Social Security retirement and Medicare
cards.
“They said they didn't accept it and never let
me go inside the hospital without paying in advance,” Joseph
said. “We paid them $5,000 in the beginning.
After four or five days they treated me to take the
pain from me.”
However, hospital personnel would only give him so
much medication for the excruciating pain.
“They would only give me up to two CCs
of morphine, which did nothing for me. I am 220 pounds,” Joseph
said. “Everything over there in the hospital
is miserable. They don't care for the person who is
in pain, or in shock. I had over 60 broken bones in
my hips down to my knee.”
Joseph and his family decided to call a friend back
in the U.S., Dr. Georges Jabaly, a board-certified
family practice physician based in Sylvania.
Dr. Jabaly is the founder and medical director of MN
Angels Clinic, a practice specializing in alternative
and holistic care that focuses on total wellness and
health care cost savings. Dr. Jabaly is also the U.S.
president of Terre Des Hommes, a non-profit humanitarian
organization that offers medical help to those in need.
Dr. Jabaly made several calls to the Terre Des Hommes
offices in the Middle East, spoke with U.S. Embassy
and Congressional representatives and arranged for
Joseph to be admitted to American University Hospital
in Beirut.
“Dr. Jabaly helped me a lot and contacted people
over there,” Joseph said. “They told me they
would provide me with as much as they could provide.” The operation to repair Joseph’s hip and legs
would have cost more than $250,000 in Beruit, according
to Dr. Jabaly, who added that doctors there told him
there was no guarantee of a successful surgery.
Dr. Jabaly, who is of Syrian descent, said that after
much dialogue, the surgeon in Beirut admitted that
it would be best if Joseph had his surgery in the U.S.
“They said, ‘We cannot do such an operation,’” Dr.
Jabaly said. “That's the bottom line. They said,
'We cannot afford such an operation. We would love
to, but we really can't.’ Let's say even if we
had the money available, I had word from insiders there
that his surgery will not be successful. Keep in mind
that the surgeon there will not tell you that. Who's
going to turn away $100,000 in a country where in a
month all you have to spend is $200. One hundred thousand
dollars back there is similar to like $1 million here.”
Dr. Jabaly said that because American University Hospital
would not accept Medicare, Joseph had no choice but
to be flown back to the U.S. for surgery.
The flight back to the States would take nearly 24
hours and would be risky. Dr. Jabaly knew it wasn’t
the best scenario for a 69-year-old man with extensive
leg and hip injuries.
“For a patient with all those injuries, to come
on a stretcher, it's not easy,” Dr. Jabaly said. “It's
hard to tell what kind of criteria they had on him
while he was there, treatment-wise. It's a bad, bad
injury. The decision that had to be made was extremely
difficult.”
Joseph was flown to Amsterdam and then to Detroit,
and was finally transferred by ambulance to the Medical
University of Ohio in Toledo on May 21.
“When I arrived at medical college, I was born
again and lived again. I can swear on that,” Joseph
said. “They provided all the help I needed. Anything
I asked for, they provided, without questioning me
for anything in advance.”
Joseph’s first operation, performed within a
day of his arrival at MUO, was performed by Dr. Nabil
Ibraheim, an orthopedic surgeon at MUO.
Joseph expressed his gratitude to Dr. Jabaly and the
Terre Des Hommes organization for bringing him home.
Joseph underwent surgery on May 22, May 23 and again
on May 26.
“I can testify if I would not have come back
home, I would never be alive,” Joseph said. “I’m
very thankful for God that he got me back over here
and thankful for Dr. Jabaly. He helped me all he could.
I am thankful to God that he let me come back to the
States. I am in very good care now.”
Joseph will undergo extensive physical therapy later
this summer. He and his wife of 26 years, Skyneh, have
four children: daughters Zaynab and Fatymeh, and sons
Hassan and Aly, who will be a senior at Start High
School next year.
“Some people asked me to go a rest home,
but told them I preferred to go to my house so my family
could look
after me,” Joseph said. “I have a nurse
visit me every day. I thought I could have more of
a social life if I stayed home.”
For more information on MN Angels Clinic or Terre Des
Hommes, go to www.mnangels.com.
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