Word: transplanter
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Time it took doctors at the Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College in Calcutta, India to perform what they claimed to be the first ever penis transplant last week...
Amount of time that the transplant recipient, a baby boy born sans genitalia, lived without his manhood...
...Moving and merging is like performing an organ transplant,” said Peabody parent Elena Saporta. “There’s always a risk of rejection. There’s always a chance the patient may never recover...
...papers, teaching others and working through the challenges of the procedure. Barnard, who watched some of these procedures being carried out when he trained in the U.S., went back to South Africa and--with very little background and at the age of 45--seized the moment and performed this transplant. His patient died 18 days later, for Barnard was racing ahead of medicine's understanding of tissue rejection. But the pioneering spirit of that operation captured me at the time...
...napkins on which they wrote the charter for the National Organization for Women. Carrie Fisher tells about the day when Star Wars premiered and her identity as Princess Leia Organa became larger than life. Senate majority leader Bill Frist recounts how the news of the world's first heart transplant inspired him to become a cardiac surgeon, and Cantor Fitzgerald chief Howard Lutnick gives an eyewitness account of the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center that foreshadowed 9/11...