A doctor was relaxing at home while watching TV when he noticed that the woman featured on the show he was watching had a lump on her throat.
32-year-old Nicole McGuinness was on HGTV’s show Beachfront Bargain Hunt with her father when Dr. Erich Voigt noticed something abnormal on her throat.
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Dr. Voigt, who is an ear, nose, and throat surgeon at NYU Langone Health, spotted the abnormality and was so concerned that it was a sign of something more serious that he took it upon himself to find Nicole through social media.
“I felt obliged to let this person know,” Dr. Voigt told Inside Edition. “They may not know they have something.”
On May 5, he used Facebook hoping that he would be able to find Nicole and be able to connect with her.
More than 7,000 views later, the post reached Nicole, who acted on the doctor’s advise and had herself checked. When she went to the doctor, she was recommended for a biopsy which revealed that she had thyroid cancer.
Dr. Voigt then made a follow up post on Facebook thanking all of the people who helped him connect with Nicole.
Inside Edition were able to bring the two together so Nicole could personally thank the good doctor.
“You have no idea how much you’ve impacted my life,” she told Dr. Voigt.