This physician assistant travels by land or air to recover life-saving organs
PHILADELPHIA -- Georgeine Smith is a physician assistant at Penn Transplant Institute, a section of Penn Medicine in Philadelphia.
Her job is to fly out a moment's notice, day or night, to help recover organs from deceased patients.
She travels by train, by car or by helicopter to retrieve the organs and later she assists in the surgeries.
The institute is doing approximately 500 surgeries each year. In more than a decade of work, Smith has been a part of hundreds of these surgeries.
She says, however, that she isn't a hero, though she's saving lives. She says the donors are the ones who should be honored.
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