Word: donor
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...announcement from the Cleveland Clinic on Wednesday, it has taken a team of eight surgeons 22 hours to replace one. Sometime during the past two weeks, the clinic successfully performed the world's first near-total facial transplant, lifting a face nearly whole from a recently deceased donor and grafting it onto an anonymous woman who had suffered extreme disfigurement to more than 80% of her own face. Her upper eyelids, forehead, lower lip and chin are all that remain of her original features. The rest is entirely new - and so, the doctors say, is the life that has been...
...needed not only extensive practice, but also to resolve the complex issues involved in selecting the right patient for the landmark operation. That's because transplanting a face transforms a patient's identity. Even though differences in the underlying bony structure mean the recipient is unlikely to resemble the donor once the procedure is completed, it's impossible for the patient's sense of self not to be profoundly shaken. "Picture yourself as a person who has received a face transplant," says Dr. Eric Kodish, the team's lead bioethicist. "Now use your moral imagination...
...took four years of screening before the team had chosen its recipient, a woman whose cause of disfigurement is being kept secret along with her name. Once she'd been chosen, the surgical team had to await a compatible donor - someone whose tissue matched the recipient's, but also, for esthetic and psychological reasons, who was of the same race, gender and approximate age. The call to alert Siemionow that a donor had finally been found came in the middle of the night earlier this month, and her team was hastily gathered. The operation began at 5:30 that afternoon...
Madoff was a donor to the Democratic Party and to Jewish organizations. A number of large Jewish charities are expected to be among the investors who lost money in Madoff's funds. Madoff was chairman of the board of Yeshiva University's Sy Syms School of Business and treasurer for the university's board of trustees. A representative for Yeshiva said the university was still trying to find out if the institution had invested money with Madoff. Also among Madoff's investors was Fred Wilpon, owner of the New York Mets, whose investment firm reportedly had as much...
...case was filed by decedents of a donor in July...