Sep 16, 2026 · 53 min · 11 segments
Podcast Show Notes Series 13 Episode 1 **Guest: Nicholas Akosa** In this episode I talk with Nicholas Akosa about his experience of heart and lung failure and his pioneering work into genetic…
Nicholas AkosaGuestTara QuintarilloHostI'm gonna do this"? 'Cause when I think about what that might take from your cup, why not just go, "Right, I'm, I'm just not gonna work.
So how do I put this? It's something actually that I haven't fully processed yet, but something that-
I've been thinking about is that I realized that the type of life support that I went on, ECMO, at the time there were only 15 machines across the whole of the UK.
Um, and they've got more machines now, but especially post-COVID where everyone-
Um, but what I realized is that people, because of the limited number of machines, people were and are turned down for treatment all of the time-
So what that essentially means is that other people lost their chance at life so that I could have one.
I'm gonna do this"? 'Cause when I think about what that might take from your cup, why not just go, "Right, I'm, I'm just not gonna work.
So how do I put this? It's something actually that I haven't fully processed yet, but something that-
I've been thinking about is that I realized that the type of life support that I went on, ECMO, at the time there were only 15 machines across the whole of the UK.
Um, and they've got more machines now, but especially post-COVID where everyone-
Um, but what I realized is that people, because of the limited number of machines, people were and are turned down for treatment all of the time-
So what that essentially means is that other people lost their chance at life so that I could have one.
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