APM:  The Story

Fighting For A New Heart [9.16.2013]


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Paul Corby is a 23-year old Pennsylvania man in need of a new heart, but he has not been placed on a transplant list. Paul is autistic and doctors have deemed him ineligible for the transplant list. Also in this show: Al Golub, a freelance photographer based near Yosemite National Park, has been photographing the nearby Rim Fire, even as it edges toward his own home; lobster wholesaler Joe Ciaramitaro on a monster lobster and one his workers dubbed the “Phantom of the Lobster;” and Jerry Howland, one of the founding teachers of the live homework help TV show “Extra Help,” on one caller he’ll never forget.

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