Hannah Fleming doesn’t remember the first few times she was in an operating room. At eight months old, she received a liver transplant that saved her life — and it wasn’t her first surgery.
Now, the Tallmadge resident is working with liver transplant recipients like herself on a regular basis. A nurse at the Cleveland Clinic Main Campus, she often doesn’t tell patients about her personal connection. But the first time she walked into the operating room, she knew she was in the right place.
When she got a job offer to work on the liver transplant team, it was “pretty scary at first,” Fleming said. But the feeling didn’t last…