Would-Be Lifesavers Go Down in Crash

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There’s a sad piece of news in today’s New York Times. A plane crash over Lake Michigan killed an entire medical transplant team and two pilots yesterday. The precious organ—a lung—was also lost. Organ transplant is a high risk field of work, because doctors habitually rush from donors to recipients in small planes. You know, trying to save other people’s lives. The would-be recipient of the lung had already been anesthetized and opened up, taxing his already seriously ill system.

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