Posted: Jun 30, 2021 3:12 PM PT | Last Updated: June 30
Josh MacIver, 6, left, and Gairett MacIver, 10, enjoying the sun on Aug. 7, 1997. Both brothers aspired to a career in medicine. (Submitted by Kate McWilliams)
Josh MacIver says he has a lot to thank his late sibling for, including the inspiration to become a family doctor.
On Wednesday, two years after completing his undergraduate degree in medicine and 14 years after his brother Gairett MacIver passed away, the Prince George, B.C., native graduated from the two-year family medicine residency program at UBC to become a full general practitioner.
MacIver's older brother, still just a teenager, made international news headlines after receiving four organs at once, including a bowel, liver, pancreas and stomach — in a 12-hour surgery at Toronto General Hospital on Aug. 1, 2006.