Lost in Transplantation (Rebroadcast)

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4.7 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Quickly delivering donated organs to patients waiting for a transplant is a matter of life and death. Yet transportation errors are leading to delays in surgeries, putting patients in danger and making some organs unusable.

This episode originally was broadcast Feb. 8, 2020.

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0:00.0	From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is Reveal.
0:05.6	I'm Al Eton.
0:06.8	And today, we're re-aering a show we first brought you earlier this year.
0:12.0	It starts with a story of a friend of mine, an engineer and music producer, Maurice Ricks.
0:17.7	But everybody calls him Mo.
0:19.8	I think we met, uh, well, I know it was over 20 years ago.
0:25.5	Big band theory.
0:26.6	Big band theory.
0:28.8	The big band theory was a 15-piece hip-hop band with this conscious vibe.
0:35.4	In the 90s, they were huge in my hometown of Jacksonville, Florida.
0:39.4	I mean, they would pack out every club that they played.
0:42.4	So please correct me if I'm wrong.
0:44.0	But back in the time of Big Band Theory, I remember that like you had gotten sick.
0:49.6	And I, because I remember like being worried about you, like everybody was like,
0:53.2	Mo was in the hospital.
0:54.4	But I, and I knew that it had something to do with your heart
0:57.5	and that you had some heart problems.
0:59.6	So, you know, so that was like 20 years ago.
1:02.8	Can you take us back to the, the beginning?
1:05.2	Yeah. Um, I was born with kidney problems.
1:08.9	So that, you know, I've been dealing with that my whole life.
1:12.0	And as the kidney problems progress, the heart stuff progressed as well.
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