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Podcast: The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Episode: How To Save A Life
Description: True story: A woman is overjoyed to learn that not only is she pregnant, but that she's carrying twins. Then doctors make a devastating discovery. One of the children has developed a fatal birth defect and will not survive long outside the womb. The news is soul crushing. Â But the woman and her husband are determined that their child's life, however brief, will have great purpose. Prior to giving birth, they arrange to donate the boy's eyes, organs, and blood to medical research. And the impact of those gifts would turn out to be extraordinary.