Mary's Story: The Miracle

The Medical Detectives

Soft Skills Media

Society & Culture, True Crime

3.6 • 711 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

This week’s episode is an extraordinary journey of resilience, groundbreaking medical innovation, and the power of hope. We welcome Karen, a devoted mother who fought tirelessly for her daughter Mary’s survival, and Dr. Brian Druker, the pioneering physician-scientist who helped develop Gleevec, the revolutionary cancer treatment that saved her.

Mary was diagnosed with an incurable form of leukemia as a child and given only a few years to live. But thanks to a medical breakthrough and the unwavering determination of her family, she not only survived—she thrived. Now, decades later, she shares her remarkable journey, from clinical trials to living treatment-free, to becoming a mother herself.

Dr. Druker joins the conversation to reflect on the scientific and personal triumphs that changed the landscape of cancer treatment forever. This is a story of perseverance, medical miracles, and what happens when you refuse to give up—even when the odds are stacked against you.

Tune in for an inspiring episode that proves sometimes, the impossible becomes possible.

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0:00.0	Erin, it is so good to see you again.
0:10.1	I've decided I'm going to call you Erin now because I feel like we've been doing this
0:14.6	enough now that you're more than Dr. Nance to me.
0:19.7	I would love it if you called me, Erin.
0:21.5	And, you know, I'm just so thrilled to be back for another week of the most incredible
0:28.2	medical stories.
0:29.5	I am so excited about this week's episode.
0:32.2	It's a wild ride.
0:33.4	This is really a special moment for me because we are going to interview a physician who
0:39.8	when you're a kid and you say you want to be a doctor, this is the doctor you have in your
0:45.8	mind who you think of. And it inspires me. It reminds me of that kid who wanted to become a doctor
0:52.9	to do this type of thing.
0:55.0	So it was just absolutely like I am fan girling in my own episode, which is incredible.
1:01.6	I love a good fan girl moment.
1:03.6	In addition to interviewing this just absolutely amazing doctor, we will be interviewing a parent.
1:09.7	And from a parent's perspective,
1:12.6	fighting for a cure for your child, I think it's an incredible story of hope and resilience
1:22.1	and never giving up the fight. Definitely. I feel like, you know, we've recorded the episode now,
1:28.6	shocker guys. And one of the things that I came away from it, you know, I'm not a doctor.
1:34.0	I don't work in the medical field. But I think the message that this episode can give anyone
1:39.8	wherever you are in your life is that you don't have to give up on hope.
1:46.1	You don't have to give up on doing the impossible regardless of what, you know, the world may say to you.
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