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Doctor donates blood to own patient
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This story made my heart happy.A Doctor in the middle of a mercy-mission surgery on an 8-year old boy briefly halted the operation in order to donate his own rare blood to the patient.
Doctor Samuel Weinstein had been in the middle of complex heart surgery on the boy when it was realized that his blood was running low and they didn't have sufficient replacement. When it was realized that the boy had the same rare blood type as Dr. Weinstein, the physician donated his blood, ate a Pop Tart, and returned to complete the surgery successfully.
The little boy came off his ventilator the next day to have lunch with the Doctor who saved his life.
Kudos to Dr. Weinstein and his team. I wish we'd hear more stories like this one.
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5-27-2006 @ 9:04AM
thordora said...I wish we'd hear more stories like this one
Amen to that. Can we have a happy day once a month? :)
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5-27-2006 @ 11:10AM
Jasmine said...Its so nice to hear such a nice story in the midst of all the bad. I agree...we should have a happy day once a month. Hey...maybe someone should make that a holiday. We need a break from reality where we have to be happy, lol.
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5-27-2006 @ 2:52PM
Nancy Toby said...The Poptart detail was nice. Now if the physician happened to be obese, we could castigate him for displaying terrible eating habits ... but instead, because he gave blood to a sick kid, and THEN ate his Poptart, he's a hero.
Isn't life strange.
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5-28-2006 @ 3:00PM
Lauren said...As one of the 1% or so of people that have the rarest blood type I feel so bad that I can't donate now that I'm pregnant - I've thought about calling the Red Cross to see if there is an emergency if they would still use it...unfortunately I think it's too big a liability for them...
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