
Good Blood
Constant Wonder - Radio Archive, Episode 1044 , Segment 2
Episode: The Best Time to Be Born (originally aired November 4, 2020)
- Jun 11, 2021 7:00 pm
- 19:55 mins
Rh disease was a chronic problem during pregnancy, one in which the mother's immune system attacked the unborn child she was carrying. Dr. John Gorman found a most improbable cure from a fourteen-year-old Australian boy who received a life-saving blood transfusion in 1951. Guest: Julian Guthrie, author of “Good Blood: A Doctor, a Donor, and the Incredible Breakthrough That Saved Millions of Babies”