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Sam Fledderjohann: The Kidney Transplant Chain That Saved 10 Lives (Pt 1)
Season 1
Episode 225
Published 1 year, 1 month ago
Description
While 94.6% of kidney donors give them to someone they know, Sam Fledderjohann felt called to give a kidney to anyone who needed it. Her being what is called an “altruistic donor” enabled a whole chain of kidney donations to be unlocked, resulting in 20 transplant surgeries over 2 days that saved the lives of 10 recipients!
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