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The inter-office politics of face transplants
By adamg on Sun, 10/02/2011 - 12:36pm
The Globe has a long piece on what Dr. Bohdan Pomahac had to go through to get his hospital and a New England organ-transplant board to let him do Boston's first face transplant.
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It Was Really Important...
It was really important that face transplants became available domestically. In the past, people had to go to Europe to get one, which involved a passport. When they got back, Customs would look at the passport and say "Hey, that's not you".