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It really is horrible for the family

That's who I feel worst for, by the way - the family. I got transplanted back in the days before UNOS and all the safeguards, so this sort of foul-up would theoretically have been more likely to happen to me.

Duke is supposed to be a major transplant center, so you'd think their team really would have known better.

posted by kidnykid on February 19, 2003 at 10:34 AM | link to this | reply

Oh how dreadful!

We're praying for this little girl, which is hard because, to save her life, someone else -- another child -- must die. But this is a ghastly situation. How awful for her, and for her family, and for the physician in charge.

I do wonder, though, about that "clerical error" that misidentified the donor's blood type. If it was due to a doctor's handwriting (many of them really do have horrible penmanship), maybe some stricter guidelines about legibility need to be enforced.

posted by editormum on February 19, 2003 at 9:10 AM | link to this | reply