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World's First Person to Undergo All Major Organ Transplants is British
The 32-year-old Cardiff University graduate, who's pursuing a medical career, certainly knows how does it feel to be a patient.
"I strongly believe that if you can't empathize with a patient, you're not a good doctor," the New York Daily News quoted John as saying.
"But after all that I've been through, I think I can use the experiences I've had with both good and bad doctors to help others," she aded.
John was only 14 years old when she experienced liver failure.n September 1995, after waiting for an agonizing 16 months, John got a transplant.
Months later, doctors told her she had lung failure and in August 1997 doctors replaced not just both lungs, but her heart too.
John's healthy heart was taken out with her lungs and given to a man who'd had several heart attacks as part of a "package."
But in April 2005, the young physician in training got to know that the medications she was taking to keep her system from rejecting her transplanted liver, heart and lungs caused kidney failure, and doctors told John she needed yet another transplant.
This time her father, David, 61, was able to be an organ donor.
But since doctors thought she might not survive general anesthesia since she was so frail, John requested an epidural instead and stayed awake for the operation.
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