Surgeon donates kidney to doctor

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — A California doctor has a colleague to thank for giving him the gift of life.

The Orange County Register reported Sunday that Dr. Brian Dunn got a kidney from Dr. Colleen Coleman.

The two have been friendly for more than a decade while working together. Coleman is a surgeon and Dunn is an anesthesiologist at Hoag Hospital near Newport Beach.

Dunn’s kidneys failed from complications due to chemotherapy from a stomach tumor he had as a teen.

Coleman almost didn’t end up as his donor when an erroneous test initially found she wasn’t a match.

Coleman says she had reservations going under the knife, but she wanted to make sure Dunn’s daughter didn’t grow up fatherless.