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This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories,

the show where America is the star and the American people.

And we love to hear your stories, send them to Our American Stories.com about your family,

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Up next, the story of how identical twin brothers, a doctor and a lawyer,

collaborated with scores of unsung heroes to modernize emergency medical services, help create

the physician assistant profession, help write the model law for organ donation, and develop

other programs that save thousands of lives every year.

Here's Alfred and Blair Sadler with their story.

Thank you very much. It's a pleasure for Blair and me to have an opportunity to be with you today and tell our story. I'm Alfred Sadler. I go by Fred

and my identical twin brother who was born four minutes after me in New York City in 1941 is Blair,

and I'm a physician and Blair is a lawyer.

Blair and I were medical students and law student, respectively, in Philadelphia in our early

20s, and this led to the idea that we might actually collaborate together.

The first issue that we addressed was the Good Samaritan problem, and what I'm referring to

is that Christianity and the American Bible talk about the Good Samaritan who is encouraged to

stop at the scene of an accident and help someone who is injured, even if it's

someone of another persuasion.

But the law may have a different view of the matter if, for example, we stop and the patient

doesn't do well or dies, the family in our litigious society

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