In 1990, a Brooklyn Center native arrived in Little Falls with her husband and made history.
Dr. Lisa Germscheid, her husband Dr. Peter Germscheid and Dr. Kurt Devine didn’t know it at the time, but they were about to impact the Little Falls medical scene for the better part of four decades.
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