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...surgeons have erred so egregiously? Fulkerson says the procedures that should prevent such errors broke down twice: when the surgeon, Dr. James Jaggers, instead of checking, assumed that the blood type of the donated organs matched Jesica's and when he failed to verbally confirm that assumption with Carolina Donor Services, the organ-donor agency. "Jesica's case has clearly sent a warning to transplant centers," says Dr. David Yuh, a transplant surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md., where the transplant staff is double-checking its own organ-matching processes...
Entitled “The Germans Arrive,” the painting shows pastoral Belgian village rendered grotesque by the brutality of German invaders during World War I. The painting is on loan from an anonymous donor...
...major Harvard donor and a former dean of the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) are accused of suppressing shareholder voting rights in the latest turn in a corporate control struggle, according to court documents made public last week...
...Santillan, whose family was smuggled out of Mexico three years ago, spent the last several days close to death; after the first transplant, her type O-positive blood attacked the type A organs. Tuesday afternoon, her mother pleaded through the media for a new donor. "Please help me find the organs that my daughter needs to live," she said. Those pleas were answered late Wednesday night, when a new double-donor was identified...
...safety procedures - including a triple-layer system to check blood type matching - to ensure this kind of error will never happen again. The hospital, which performed its first organ transplant in 1965 and now performs the most lung transplants in the country, says there has never been a donor mix-up at the facility before. According to Puff, the investigation is ongoing, and there is no word when the hospital will release new findings on the cause of the error...