I want to repay the hospital that saved my life as a child
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I want to repay the hospital that saved my life as a child

Kerry Nolan Healthcare assistant, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London

After being born at 26 weeks’ gestation, Kerry Nolan was treated at the London NHS trust where she now works

I was born premature at 26 weeks with a distended stomach. I was referred immediately to Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), London, in December 1987, where I was diagnosed with necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) and a perforated bowel.

Nursing Children and Young People. 30, 2, 12-12. doi: 10.7748/ncyp.30.2.12.s11

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