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In his 24-year career as a pediatrician, Dr. John Bancroft has treated thousands of children. But the story of one young girl, whom he treated more than 10 years ago, has stayed with him. The girl's condition was dire -- a sudden onset of liver failure -- and her family's hopes hinged on an organ transplant. But a donor for the girl could not be found before her condition had advanced too far for intervention. Upon her death, the girl's family asked that their daughter's organs -- her kidneys and pancreas -- be offered for donation so that others could have an improved chance at life. As Dr. John Bancroft told his own daughter, Carolyn, recently in New York, it was the gift of life, as much as his patient's death, that has stuck with him.
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Review of StoryCorps: Dr. John and Caroline BancroftLovely little story - emotion on the part of the doctor father telling this story as naked as the teary response from the interviewer daughter. As someone who more than once has wept with the subject and then had a crisis of "cut it out/leave it in" in the editing stage - I think the right decision was made here.
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Broadcast History
NPR's Morning Edition 7/28/06
Transcript
JB: A little girl had come to the hospital with the sudden onset of
liver failure. She was sitting on her mother's lap at a high school
football game when her mother noticed that her eyes were yellow and she
was acting a little tired. By the time we brought her into the hospital
it was pretty clear that her liver was failing and was not likely to
recover and we began very quickly the process of listing her for
possible transplant.
Seven, eight, nine days went by and there wasn't a donor available. On
the tenth day, when we thought we had a lead on a donor, she had a
sudden worsening. And even as we were trying to make the decision
whether we were going to go ahead with the transplant, her brain
function changed to the point where it was clear we couldn't. There was
little chance that she was going to recover.
So after working with that family every day for ten days, just taking
each...
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Posted on July 09, 2008 at 06:23 AM | Permalink
Review of StoryCorps: Dr. John and Caroline Bancroft
unforgettable as an inspring view of the best in human nature, but also because the story splashes over into what we could do with our own lives..