More Than You Can Handle: A Rare Disease and a Family in Crisis with Miguel Sancho

Episode 222 · 46 min · April 14, 2021

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Miguel Sancho is the author of More Than You Can Handle: A Rare Disease, a Family in Crisis, and the Cutting-Edge Medicine that Cured the Incurable. The book chronicles the lives, deaths and “rebirths” of patients and staff at the Duke University Hospital Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, where his own son’s life was saved in 2016. Connect with this week’s guest and grab the full episode note

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