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Witnesses Say Would-Be Organ Donor Started ‘Thrashing’ on the Table

‘HORRIFYING’

Organ preservationists who saw an ostensibly dead patient come back to life said they were pressured to proceed with a harvest surgery.

Claire Lampen
Claire Lampen 

Reporter

A kidney transplant in Nice, France.
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Claire Lampen

Claire Lampen

Reporter

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