Last night Without A Trace received an award for a transplant storyline in their episode "A Bend In The Road."The Sentinel for Health Awards are presented by Hollywood, Health & Society and the Norman Lear Center and are awarded annually to daytime dramas, telenovelas, children's programming, primetime comedy and primetime dramas that present accurate health information.
http://www.learcenter.org/html/projects/?cm=hhs
Last night's winners included ER, Desperate Housewives, Grey's Anatomy, Lincoln Heights, Breaking Bad, As The World Turns, and Pecados Ajenos for topics on alcoholism, cancer, STD's, HIV, mental health and construction site safety.
OneLegacy helped to organize the judging team, including a donor family member, transplant recipient, transplant coordinator and myself, to watch and evaluate "A Bend In The Road." The episode was about a teenager who recieved a heart transplant and went in search of her donor family.
The writer revealed that the idea for the story came from an NPR news segment about a woman who found her donor family.
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