PSYCH 154: Organ Transplantation
recovery and life with a transplanted organ.
Medlock Holmes enters The Hall of Second Lives.
At its centre stands an enormous clock. Around it wait patients with failing hearts, lungs, livers and kidneys. Above them hangs a second clock whose hands move unpredictably.
No one knows when an organ will become available.
For some, it will arrive in time.
For others, it will not.
Holmes immediately understands that transplantation is unlike most medical treatments. The patient is not simply preparing for an operation. They must live with severe illness while waiting for an unpredictable event upon…
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