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Let's say you are a cardiologist and you are asked to do a heart transplant into GHW Bush. When the heart arrives, you notice that it is a young heart maybe even from a 16yo or 17yo kid. You already know from looking at GHW's file, that he already has a transplant heart in place, and given his age, you wonder why a heart with 60-70 years left on the odometer is being given to man who will only live another 10-20 years. People make excuses, saying it was a motorcycle accident and that is all that is available. So you do the job. After surgery is done, two assistant surgeons are closing up the chest, you go out to wash up and get a coffee. Two strange nurses go in the the operating theater and draw curtains over the windows. You ask what is going on, because this is decidedly odd. But someone makes and excuse about praying so you wash up and get your coffee.
The next day at the golf course, you mention the luck old GHW had that a kid crashed his motorcycle. But he says, where did you hear this? There were no crashes for the past two weeks. This other cardiologist had a patient the same day and the only to hearts available were a 37yo female and a 48yo male. There was nothing else in the state that day. Odd
Decidedly odd.
But new cases came up and you got busy and almost forgot this. And now, years later you are hearing about people trafficking and organ theft and so you start asking questions about that incident on that day that you gave GHW his 2nd new heart. People are afraid to talk. But you learn that the heart did not come through normal channels, there is no record of the donor or the transfer of the heart to your hospital. Inside your hospital their is no record of the harvesting of a heart. You remember that it was brought to you in the kind of container used for a heart harvested in house. Very suspicious. You discuss your concerns with the head of the hospital. He suggests that you come in tomorrow afternoon and discuss this in detail. He asks how your own health is holding up, do you still bike 5 miles every morning?
You are happy this issue is going to be resolved. Next morning you wake up as usual and go out for you usual morning ride. And then....
the preceding is a work of fiction. No resemblance to persons living, dead or about to be dead is intended.