Article: Five doctors couldn't tell I needed a new heart.(Column)

THE NHS undertakes 151 heart transplants a year. Here RACHAEL ARTHUR, 19, a hotel receptionist from Truro, describes her transplant and her surgeon Mr Steven Tsui, consultant cardiac surgeon at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, explains the procedure.

THE PATIENT

I WAS born with a congenital heart block which slows down the heart because electrical impulses between the top and bottom chambers don't get through.

When I was 14, I had a pacemaker fitted which was great. My doctor said I could go away and lead a normal life. Then in July 1999, just after my 17th birthday, when I was at college, I started feeling nervous and sick when I ate.

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