When a family faces the tragedy of a dying baby, the last thing they
need is to be asked what definition of death they'd prefer be used to
determine when that baby no longer needs its vital organs. But
according to The Washington Post,
that's just what a recent essay in the New England Journal of Medicine
suggests be the new protocol for organ harvesting. At the Children's
Hospital in Denver, doctors have harvested the hearts of babies
declared dead of heart failure after 75 seconds, only to transplant
them and restart them in the bodies of other babies.
The problem is
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