Cancer survivors reunite after 30 years and work at same hospital

Dorian Scott and Dorionne Scott are not related, but they've lived parallel lives.

- Bill Holton

Their similar names caused much confusion when they were both treated for leukemia as children by the same doctor. And after 30 years, their similar names prompted a special reunion neither will ever forget

Dorian Scott shook his head reading yet another email in his inbox clearly meant for someone else. He recently started working as a surgical technician at Ochsner Medical ComplexClearview in New Orleans but kept getting emails about scheduling issues. This time, he decided to investigate and learned the emails were actually intended for a woman in the surgical scheduling department named Dorionne Scott.

Same name, different spelling. Interesting, he thought. But then…

Could it possibly be? Dorian wondered.

Parallel lives

Dorian was only 2 years old when his tummy began to swell and he started having seizures. His pediatrician referred him to New Orleans’ Children’s Hospital, where doctors made a traumatic discovery: Dorian had acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). “The good news is this kind of leukemia is very treatable with an exceptionally high success rate,” said pediatric hematologist Dr. Rajasekharan Warrier.