The Leverage of Technology in Transplantation

I knew nothing about my recipient until the day of the surgery when I was told that it was a 37 year old female in Denver area. Did you know anything about the cause of her illness and would that have mattered to you if you did know? No, I had no idea. They ask that same question in the initial stages in a little bit different way. What they ask is if something happens to your recipient, how upset are you going to be? Quite frankly, my answer was this is multiple people who are getting a transplant because of what I'm doing. If one of them doesn't work out, I'm terribly sorry but it's going to change the lives for all the others