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Suicide: Hospitals, health care providers play vital role in treatment
Chris Munn 2 9 2016
Chris Munn is the director of emergency services at Northside Hospital-Forsyth. - photo by Aldo Nahed
CUMMING -- As the nurse cleaned around the gunshot wound on Samuel Barrow Jr.'s body, she directed her staff to make the 15-year-old as presentable as possible – she didn’t want the teen’s family to see him bloodstained. Barrow Jr.’s family had already witnessed too much. His father, Samuel Barrow Sr., had tried to save the boy after he shot himself, but his son didn’t make it to the hospital alive.
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What the $1.55 billion Mega Millions jackpot will buy in Forsyth County
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The Mega Millions drawing on Tuesday, August 8 is expected to offer a $1.55 billion jackpot. - photo by Daniel Dotson
The next Mega Millions drawing, on Tuesday, August 8, may set the record for the highest jackpot payoff in Mega Millions’ history.
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