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The Philly Half Marathon blocked an organ donation driver from delivering a liver. So a surgeon ran through the race to get it

Adam Bodzin ran more than half a mile to get the liver, dodging racers in the Philadelphia Half-Marathon.

Surgeon Adam Bodzin ran more than half a mile to pick up a liver for a transplant surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital on Nov. 19. The driver attempting to deliver the organ was unable to find his way around road closures for Philadelphia Marathon weekend.
Surgeon Adam Bodzin ran more than half a mile to pick up a liver for a transplant surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital on Nov. 19. The driver attempting to deliver the organ was unable to find his way around road closures for Philadelphia Marathon weekend.Read moreAlejandro A. Alvarez / Staff Photographer
    by Tom Avril
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