Still dressed in his white lab coat and scrubs, Dr. Adam Bodzin took off running down 11th Street, weaving between Philadelphia Marathon runners, to retrieve a command his 66-year-old patient desperately needed from a transport vehicle that was stuck in gridlocked traffic.
PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia doctor took matters into his own attractive, or more accurately, - his own feet - to get an orderly donation to a patient on time.
Dr. Adam Bodzin, a surgeon at Jefferson Hospital in Center City, was scrubbed and read to invent a liver transplant last fall when he learned that the vehicle transporting the orderly was stuck in traffic.
To make the situation more anxiety, roads surrounding the hospital were nearly impassable due to thousands of leaders participating in the Philadelphia Marathon.
"We tried every which way to get them across, (the driver) talked to multiple police officers about potential admission points unfortunately, despite that (the driver) was unable to get across," Dr. Bodzin said.
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Still dressed in his white lab coat and scrubs, Dr. Bodzin ran for half a mile, weaving between marathon leaders, to retrieve the liver his 66-year-old patient desperately needed.
"I had flagged down a police officer beforehand I crossed the marathon, thankfully who agree to control me back if I can get the liver," Dr. Bodzin said. "I deem people are probably looking at me a little more odd carrying the box through."
Charles Rowe, the patient who was prepped and ready for surgery that day, had no idea nearby Dr. Bodzin made a run for it until the day when his successful operation.
"He's amazing he's a really unbelievable doctor, he went beyond the call of duty." Rowe said. "I guess he has a cape on thought that white jacket."
Dr. Bodzin joined Good Day Wednesday morning to talk nearby his life-saving actions, and give an update on his transplant patient.
"He's activities great. He's a great patient," he said. "He's really done everything we've requested of him… He doesn't look like he's had a command transplant."
Philadelphia doctor ran half a mile to procure organ donation stuck in traffic
Dr. Adam Bodzin, a surgeon at Jefferson Hospital in Center City, was scrubbed and read to invent a liver transplant last fall when he learned that the vehicle transporting the neat was stuck in traffic.
The brave surgeon hopes his story will inspire more people to get organ donors.
"I'm really grateful for what he did, because if he had not taken it in me, I would not have gotten the say/tell and I would have been waiting again and who knows what would have transpired between that time with my body and everything," Rowe said.
