Word: liverance
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...Duke, no matter what the operation ended up costing. While neither side has been willing to reveal what those terms were, it's a good bet that the number was on the low end of what Duke was likely to spend; on average, Duke's bill for a liver transplant runs about...
...Saturday, Hunter slipped into a coma. Dr. Tuttle upgraded him to highest-priority status and put out a call through the organ-transplant network for a liver. Labor Day weekend, normally a period offering a bumper crop of organs because of holiday traffic deaths, came and went without a prospect. TUESDAY 10:00 A.M. Todd remains in a coma, his liver shot, his skin yellow to his toes. Retribution is in the air midmorning when Brown reaches Trotter, demanding to know why Hunter is not at UNC. Their conversation is "spirited," according to Trotter, "emotionally charged," according...
...make deals," Tuttle said. "I'm going to take care of him. He's my patient." As of Tuesday night, however, there was no liver in sight, and time was running...
WEDNESDAY 10:05 A.M. Tuttle is in the OR, assisting in the Jacks "living-related" transplant, when word comes that a liver has been located on the West Coast and can be in Durham by evening. It arrives in a large styrofoam box, bathed in preservative inside a plastic bag--surprisingly mundane packaging for a gift of life. It is after 11 p.m. when Tuttle removes Hunter's shriveled liver and begins the delicate work of suturing all the various vessels and ducts from the new liver into Hunter's system. At 12:30 in the morning, the moment...
...break, in which she consumes her standard post-op refreshment--grape juice mixed with Fresca--Tuttle walks down a flight of stairs and into the dimly lit and nearly deserted waiting room. "I know you're exhausted," she tells a pale Kim Hunter. "He's doing fine. The new liver is in, and the old one is out. He's been stable the whole time. We have two more hookups to go." She hugs Kim, who tells the doctor, "I ain't leaving. Thank...