Six Months Old, Eight New Organs

AEton writes "According to the BBC, Dr. Andreas Tzakis has just successfully replaced six-month-old Alessia Di Matteo's liver, stomach, pancreas, small and large intestine, spleen, left kidney, and right kidney in a record-setting operation. The child is so far doing fine with a one-year-old baby's organs. Tzakis is no stranger to multiple-organ transplants; in 1997 he set the previous record of seven organs by replacing seven of a two-and-a-half-year-old's organs. It must be a little odd to know that a growing plurality of your tissue used to be someone else's."

Comments

Re:Hmm, this is a tough one

[DAldredge]

Yea, if fucking sucks when you are confonted by those that you think should have been killed before they became a burdon on society.

Fucking deal with it.

Re:Hmm, this is a tough one

[emotionus]

So do we castrate / spade anyone that gets X treatment?

Re:Hmm, this is a tough one

[falsified]

I thought Russia won the war in Europe, while we won the war in Asia. Go and be high and mighty to a bunch of Indonesians or something.

notice location of operation

[b17bmbr]

the operation happened in the US. Why? we have the best medicine in the world. we have the best system in the world. period. because of our free market system. yes, we can find ways to help out those without coverage. but to revamp, er, destroy, our system is asinine.