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Living Donation Discussion and News => Living Donation in the News => Topic started by: Clark on December 05, 2011, 03:54:01 PM
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http://www.thesunnews.com/2011/12/04/2533119/myrtle-beach-chamber-leader-brad.html
Myrtle Beach chamber leader donating a kidney to a stranger in first-of-a-kind NC surgery
By Jay Price
Brad Dean is in perfect health, but just after 7:30 a.m. Monday, Duke University Medical Center surgeon Deepak Vikraman-Sushama will press a scalpel against his abdomen and slice.
That cut will kick off a cascade of four operations on four patients – and perhaps a new era for kidney transplants in North Carolina.
Dean, 43, president of the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce, is a so-called “altruistic donor.” He offered to give a kidney to an unknown recipient simply because he thinks it’s the right thing to do.
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