Thursday, February 20, 2003

The poor teenager who was given a heart and lung of the wrong blood type was described as "a lucky little girl." Not sure about you but I'm a believer in luck (particularly the luck of the Irish) and her story is not my definition of luck. Having a second heart and lung to transplant at all may be considered lucky - but she certainly hasn't been. I hope it all turns out well for her (and her family and friends.) And at what point will our health system stop making what appear to be easily avoidable mistakes? Now's a good time, I think. Okay - just stop it. And Duke should be worried about something other than the PR fallout from all this.

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