ABC Television Network’s Boston Med Concludes Eight-Part Series: Two Complete Strangers. One Historic Transplant Operation. Many Lives Transformed.
Susan Whitman Helfgot and William Novak’s new book titled, The Match: Complete Strangers, a Miracle Transplant, Two Lives Transformed, out on shelves this October, tells the remarkable medical story of her husband's fatal heart transplant surgery that led to another man's new face and new life. The documented storyline also unfolds on ABC Television Network’s Boston Med, an eight-part limited medical series, concluding with the season finale this Thursday, August 12, at 10 p.m. EDT.
“Hope can triumph over tragedy if you open the door,” says Susan Whitman Helfgot.
New York, NY (PRWEB) August 12, 2010
Susan Whitman Helfgot and William Novak’s new book titled, The Match: Complete Strangers, a Miracle Transplant, Two Lives Transformed, out on shelves this October, tells the remarkable medical story of her husband's fatal heart transplant surgery that led to another man's new face and new life. The documented storyline also unfolds on ABC Television Network’s Boston Med, an eight-part limited medical series, concluding with the season finale this Thursday, August 12, at 10 p.m. EDT.
Whitman, widow to face transplant donor Joseph Helfgot, will be seen in an interview over most ABC affiliates this Thursday prior to Boston Med’s finale, to raise and promote organ donor awareness. She will discuss her latest book, The Match, and her courageous decision to donate the face of her husband that not only transformed the lives of the families connected, but drastically touched and inspired the lives of many around the world. “Hope can triumph over tragedy if you open the door,” says Susan Whitman Helfgot.
ABC caught it live on camera to document the remarkably riveting story about two honorable men. Helfgot, the persevering son of Auschwitz survivors, who lived on to build Marketcast, Inc., one of Hollywood’s largest entertainment market research companies, and James Maki, a disabled Vietnam Veteran, left horribly disfigured from a tragic fall into an electrified subway rail in 2005.
This bittersweet tale encompasses the true essence of the trials and tribulations we face as we journey through time, pressing forward with transformational, life-altering decisions. From the donor, to the recipient, to the surgeon, to the widower and family, this heart-wrenching saga pulls heart strings to deeply convey a message and ask: What is sacrifice? What is determination? How can two wildly disparate lives intertwine in less than 24 hours?
Boston Med, which premiered June 24, 2010, marks the journey of medical practitioners in three American hospitals: Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital Boston. Their epic accounts display the demanding lives of doctors who sacrifice everything to make medical history and emanate medical brilliance in their self-less aspiration to serve others. Boston Med’s finale is a heroic tragedy so exquisite, that it portrays death not as a means to an end, but as an opportunity for the continuation of life and chance to live on through others.
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