The Happy Pod: The surgeon who left his wedding to save a life

快乐舱:那位为救人性命而放弃婚礼的医生

Global News Podcast

2025-07-05

26 分钟
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A surgeon who left his wedding to save a life says it's inspired him to help more people. Also: one man's adventures with a pet goose; a police officer reunited with a baby he rescued; and why we should eat more custard.
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  • This is The Happy Pod from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Debbie Russ, and in this edition,

  • the doctor who became a local hero by leaving his own wedding to perform life-saving surgery.

  • Whether I operate on this patient or not,

  • the outcome will affect my life totally in future, so I did whatever I can.

  • Also...

  • I'm happy because now I have a travel companion.

  • It follows me everywhere and when I sleep at night, it comes to sleep right next to me.

  • Why a man is walking the length of Vietnam with a goose.

  • The unusual bond between two police officers in the US reunited 25 years after one saved the other as a baby.

  • Plus...

  • She tends to go to school with him in the morning, follows him and his friends,

  • sometimes comes home with them, sometimes hangs about for after school.

  • You know, they really have embraced her as part of the school community.

  • The cat with a 100% attendance record and a 106-year-old man shares his rather unexpected secret to a long life.

  • We start in Ethiopia with a surgeon who put aside his own wedding celebrations to save someone's life.

  • Dr Brooke Weisha was getting ready for his big day when he received a call about a patient 40 kilometres away at the hospital where he'd begun working as the first surgical specialist just three weeks before.

  • A 40-year-old man needed an urgent operation for a potentially fatal stomach condition.

  • Dr Brooke has been speaking to The Happy Pod's Holly Gibbs about what happened on the day.

  • I became in dilemma and I told my family that I'm going to operate on this patient.