The transplant patient awaiting an organ being delivered on a plane that crashed in Lake Michigan may become the seventh fatality of the accident if another organ can't be found quickly.The patient was put back on the waiting list for another organ Tuesday and was reported to be "very critically ill," a day after six members of an organ transplant team died trying to save his life.
Hospital officials and organ-donation authorities would not identify the transplant patient other than to say he was a man, and would not say what type of organ he was awaiting, citing medical privacy rules.
But one of the doctors killed was a cardiac surgeon, suggesting the patient was about to get a new heart or lungs.
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said @ Fri Jun 8, 2007 @ 7:47pm
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