The Donor Who Saved My Life
It took two years of waiting, and an international search, but a British doctor who has saved the lives of thousands of babies has met the man who saved HIS life.
It took two years of waiting, and an international search, but a British doctor who has saved the lives of thousands of the tiniest babies has met the man who saved HIS life.
Dr Nick Embleton, a Consultant at Newcastle’s Special Care Baby Unit, was diagnosed with a rare blood cancer, and was told he would die without a stem cell transplant. There were no matches in the UK, but eventually a worldwide search did locate one.
Dr Embleton was keen to find out who his donor was - so got in touch with the ±«Óãtv. And it turned out, Dr Embleton may well have saved his donor's life, too.
The ±«Óãtv's health correspondent, Sharon Barbour, witnessed their very first meeting, for this episode of 5 Minutes On.
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