Thanks to one of the most popular television personalities in the world, an Indian-born businessman has been given a second chance at life. It was 20 years ago that Sudhir Choudhrie underwent heart transplant surgery. The physician who performed the operation was none other than “Dr. Oz” – that’s Dr. Mehmet Oz, the host of the four-time Emmy winning TV show in the United States.
Sudhir Choudhrie is now one of the longest surviving heart transplant recipients in the world. But back in 1998, Dr. Oz said Mr. Choudhrie was literally experiencing his “last few heartbeats” as he awaited a donor to become available. Mr. Choudhrie has been placed on the organ donor waiting list years earlier. His own brother, Rajiv Choudhrie, died while awaiting his own heart donor.
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Sudhir Choudhrie said losing his brother to heart failure remains a lasting source of sadness in his life. At the same time, he has embraced the second chance fortune granted to him. In fact, Mr. Choudhrie said developing a positive attitude and being determined to move forward with a healthy mindset is a major key to living as a transplant survivor.
Sudhir Choudhrie was born in Delhi, India. He makes his home today in London. He was just eight years old when a routine physical revealed that he had a significant heart murmur. Nothing could be done at the time. His doctors told him to simply live his life but that he should expect to encounter major problems with his heart in the future.
In the meantime, Mr. Choudhrie made the best of what he had, both physically and intellectually. He graduated with a degree in economics from the University of Delhi in the early 1960s. He then launched his own export company. Choudhrie’s natural instinct for business propelled this enterprise to ever-higher levels of success. In 1975, he founded the Magnum International Trading Company. This firm would make him a wealthy man.
His many business connections in the United Kingdom eventually prompted Mr. Choudhrie to move to London and take British citizenship in 2010. He’s clearly a man who refused to let a lifetime of health problems hold him back from leading his fullest life. Read More: https://medium.com/@sudhirchoudhrie