Dr. Gary Gibbon was battling lung cancer when he saw an NBC News story on experimental transplants being carried out at Northwestern Medicine. A year later, he credits it with saving his life.
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I have mixed feelings about this…..
That doctor is wrong to say they’re the only place to do a liver & double lung transplant. I know of a YouTube vlogger by the name of Mary Frey who has Cystic Fibrosis who moved from MA to NC because they know that Duke performs liver & double lung transplant that she’ll need down the road. I think the doctor in this video forgot that there are other hospitals in the country that perform this kind of transplant too.
You cheat death by a few years…..worth it????
I need a liver transplant asap an have no help I am 31 from Trinidad 🇹🇹 4 kids not working its really hard I really glad for him🙏🙏💯 …may God bless me the same for the sake of my kids..
He is very lucky and a living miracle.❤It's awesome to see someone that blessed.
Giving a Cancer patient two healthy lungs and a liver is risky and controversial. There is a long list of people who don't have cancer waiting for a transplant.
That’s my grandma and her husband
North western is the only place that does this.
And Gary had the money to do it…
I did three years of emergency medicine and two years of family medicine residency training. This archetype news report brought me to tears. Thank you, journalists, for your work to give this story greater resonance.
This man must be rich, that he was able to get immediate treatment .
Imagine if you are middle class or poor.
He didn't know about lung transplant? It's not a new thing
I'm not sure how this gentleman was able to get both of those organs and at the same time. Aren't there long waiting lists? He also had to have the financial means to be life flighted to Illinois and all the other major expenses involved. Anyone with an organ transplant needs very strict aftercare in a pristine environment so that's another challenging aspect. I'm happy for this man but not sure this is an option for many people. I could be wrong. ❤
One of the best stories.
This is wonderful news to wake up to this morning!! But… Jealous! All I wanted was a breast reduction, and I got almost every post surgical complication including an antibiotic resistant staph infection. Surgery during advanced cancer is no joke! I'm stage IV and I was thriving, yet that surgery nearly killed me. Cancer patients are at higher risk of all the complications from surgery. This guy is so fortunate! So amazing! I'm nearly dumbstruck-happy for him, but I can't help feeling a little jealous. Nevertheless, it's high time they found better treatments for lung cancer. Lung cancer doesn't get the funding it deserves compared to, for example, breast cancer like mine. We metastatic cancer patients need to stick together to keep raising awareness and funding.
Good luck James Carville
With this kind of Medical Advancement in the USA. I can say US has the most advance medical technology out there even for European countries.
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The story is intriguing; however, the overall reporting is incomplete and far too tone deaf for the US healthcare debacle. Making it sounds as though just anyone; everybody, can waltz into surgery… AND JUST LIKE THAT! Not in the United States!
Amazing…how he seems to have NOT had to wait for THREE organ transplant… we all are aware this NEVER happens for the average citizen, let alone the uninsured. —-Good for him. It should be equally accessible to anyone in need.
Are they lab-grown lung and liver, or donated one????
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Wow, this is incredible news and a new hope for many patients! As an OR, PACU, ICU, and ER nurse, I have witnessed many organ harvest cases and cared for many donor patients. It's rewarding to see that the effort results in a positive impact for the recipients.
Had it been an average joe, they would have never got the lungs in time, and don't even think about a liver too. Hey, maybe he got lucky? But I have my suspicions.
what but them 2 doctors r not american,, sorry they are, the gop would kick them out of the country if they get in
Curious to find out who paid for the surgery I'm sure him being a doctor helped with connections to get it done but I don't see a normal person in America that needs this even if they have insurance almost guaranteed they wouldn't cover this the insurance companies won't even cover a prescription your doctor gives you and says you need insurance companies are able to practice their own medicine and say no we're not covering that but you're telling me they covered this surgery I would bet my left nut that's not the case either paid nothing or he paid all of it out of his pocket is anyone aware how he paid for it?
Wow God bless 🎉🎉🎉
Rona McDaniel would call this fake news and question the immigration status of those wonderful doctors.
This is an amazing story.
two lungs and a liver? how many people die waiting for just one of those?
Wow, they basically did this on Chicago Med last night!
Happy for the doctor. So glad his wife saw the video. One would think doctors who specialize in the field would be up to date with current information. Unsurprisingly they get their information from primetime tv. I can’t help but Wonder if this would happen for someone who is not affluent and white.
I guess you can call it good news. Except someone had to die or give up their lungs and liver. So that old Doc can squeeze a few more months. 🤔
The two doctors don't seem Americans. Do you still want immigrants out of the country
Praising The Lord!
That’s just amazing, happy for the doctor ❤
Benefits of immigrants
I have histoplasmosis, blastomycosis and valley fever and Mac infection and i need just one dr to know what to do with them all because no one seems to know
Incredible
we are only ever buying ourselves more time. death is inevitable.
Guaranteed if this guy wasn’t a rich doc he wouldn’t have gotten all this. Got lucky
makes me want to eat fried chicken livers tonight.
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