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Surgeons Testify They Didn't Have Permission to Use a Donor's Heart
In Richmond Virginia during a landmark civil suit William E. Tucker claims his brother Bruce Tucker died so his heart could be used in Virginia's first cardiac transplant. Surgeons testified they lacked family or examiner consent when surgery began. The medical examiner had authorized under unclaimed bodies statute after efforts to contact kin failed. The recipient Joseph G. Klett died a week later.
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Richmond, Va
William E. Tucker
Bruce Tucker
Virginia
Tucker
Richmond
Richard R. Lower
The
Medical College of
Virginia Hospital
Joseph G. Klett
L. Douglas Wilder
William Tucker
Lower
Klett
Wilder
David M. Hume
MCV
Surgery
Hume
Senseny Lower