KSHB: ‘Gift of Life’: Organ Transplant Recipient, Surgeon Talk Importance of Organ Donors

While National Donate Life Month has concluded, the fight for tens of thousands of Americans who are waiting for organ transplants continues.

KSHB talked with kidney recipient Chris Paxton and Matthew Wilkinson, MD, a surgeon with Saint Luke’s kidney and liver transplant program, about the impactful gift of organ donation and how donors help save thousands of lives in the U.S. each year. 

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