Galveston County Daily News, March 25, 2007 By Debra Danburg GALVESTON - It started with some bad clams I ate during a visit to Maryland - or so we assumed. In fact, my diagnosis was far more serious than the hepatitis A that my husband, Bob, and I erroneously suspected I'd contracted. Still, with luck, I may end up owing my survival to early diagnosis and a highly skilled surgeon. And I owe that to having decided a year ago to get my health care at a world-class academic medical center where well-trained and highly experienced physicians and surgeons diagnose and treat some of the most complex and terrifying medical problems human beings can face: UTMB in my new hometown of Galveston.