The journey to becoming the world’s first full face transplant recipient was fraught with challenges.
One moment the helicopter was running perfectly. The next, it was hurtling towards the wind-whipped ocean.
‘It was comforting to know you were with her during her final moments. We couldn’t ask for a finer, more caring doctor,’ wrote the grieving son of one of Dr Harold Shipman’s older patients. But why had so many of his patients died without warning?
In a 1998 bush fire that tore through rural Victoria, five firefighters made the ultimate sacrifice.
The woman was dying, and the jumbo jet had no time to land. ‘I have to operate,’ the surgeon said.
