dr. jonas is honestly one of the top in the world if not the top two of this kind of surgery and the fact that he was here in this city to be able to do this is really a god send. >> you say in the book that paul's situation is one of the most difficult he ever operated on. >> he called it one of the longest and most complicated surgeries he has done and he does about 250 a year. this is a surgeon who travels the world. paul's case was just really complex. his specific heart. the fix, brian, in order to make it work was a donated baby aorta. it was sewn in. the right ventricle of his heart that enables the blood to flow in that way. and because that part did not grow with him it that's get changed out. so he got changed out when he was 10-month-old and again last september. those are donated organs. so the power of that. there were three families who lost their loved ones so that my son, our son, could live. we were fortunate enough to write thank you letters. they had this program to the famil

as dr. jonas retooled a heart pumping the wrong way. >> there is a clear plastic bandage over his chest. i remember specifically looking down with amy at this little walnut sized heartbeating. >> you could see it inside? >> see it through the bandage. thinking this -- feared that little walnut heart is going to stop. and it was heavy. >> baby paul made a full recovery. but as he grew, one of the tubes in his heart had to be replaced with a bigger one. >> paul has had three open heart surgeries. he's had seven afrpg yoe plasties. >> how many more procedures does efface? >> he may have to have one more open heart surgery if, we're fortunate. >> paul had the most recent operation last september. >> he woke up in the middle of the night and out of the blue he asked me, daddy, why do i have to do all these things? all of these heart things? i said, buddy, because god has a plan for you. >> all of us who know paul see a happy 6-year-old who is full of life. >> he's the tallest kid in his class. he is fu

for the common good and the health of the planet patents be damned also reminds me of the story of dr jonas salk the man who created the world's first polio vaccine after effectively saving the lives of entire generation of children sauk was asked who would own the patent to the new lifesaving medicine his response was short cutting could you own a patent on the sun. so why did the rest of the world get that some patents are too valuable to be hoarded. it's not often that i get to feature a musician on the show was actually from washington d.c. the band's head rock love is d.c. through and through and he's seen up close and personal the effect gentrification has had on native washingtonian and some of the guys of economic development as a result he uses his music to promote social awareness of the most pressing issues facing the city so we're performing a song with superbad three solution as head rock. to say you want to. kill it all for the sake of three you want to. do better this. year. you want to. do good. books all you want to joe's. she played soccer you bet i'm going to say the very

dr. richard jonas from children's national heart institute has treated paul since birth and performed his delicate surgeries. >> it's called the arterial switch operation. like the name implies you have to switch around the main arteries, close off the hole in the heart, repair the a or ta. join them together. because part of his heart was quite underdeveloped and having an abnormal coronary artery meant we had to jump over it with a tube. >> that tube is a donated human a yor ta from a baby so it doesn't grow as paul grows. it needs to be replaced. >> we had to have another open heart surgery in ten months. he's grown like a weed and he had a third open heart surgery just last september. >> as you can see, the surgery was a success. paul is an energetic 6-year-old who loves to play with his little brother daniel. he may still need one or two more revision procedures in the future. >> in these situations i can really only focus on paul. bret needs to reach out to others and be the communicator, so we've sort of learned how we communicate which is why bret has a book coming out. >> that bo

dr. richard jonas. and it was the best decision we ever made. >> during the ordeals and the operations and when you were able eventually to come back to work but your son was still in grave condition, how were you able to concentrate on your job? >> it was tough. especially those first days. back when he was still in the hospital. my wife said to me, you need to go back to work. because i was pacing the hallways and we had gotten to a point where he was okay. >> she wanted some distance. >> she wanted some distance, yeah. she says i'd love -- the relationship has worked over this time because bret travels a lot. but i really tried to focus -- i was at the white house at the time. on the story of the day. and really just delve into it. and it helped me actually deal with getting through those moments. >> right. you even got a voicesmal message from president bush which you let go to voicemail because you didn't know the president was calling. >> right. >> during the book you sent these incredibly long e-

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