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The Cruel Irony of Organ Transplantation’s Success By Edmund O. Lawler

5 October 2021 Guest Post

Seventy-one years ago, Dr. Richard Lawler led a team of surgeons and nurses in performing the world’s first solid organ transplant by grafting a kidney from a just-deceased patient into the abdomen of a 44-year-old Chicago woman. She lived nearly five more years. In the decades that followed that groundbreaking...

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