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Italian Surgeon Accused of Assaulting Patients Through Pioneering Windpipe Transplants Goes on Trial
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5 Years Later: Ex-Soldier Who Received One of the World’s First Face Transplants Shows Results
In 2001, Mitch Hunter was involved in a car accident that destroyed his face. After the car he was driving in hit an electrical pole, Hunter pushed the woman in the passenger seat to safety, but he himself was zapped for 5 minutes by 10,000 volts, which left him severely disfigured, and without his left leg.
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Italian Surgeon Accused of Assaulting Patients Through Pioneering Windpipe Transplants Goes on Trial
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5 Years Later: Ex-Soldier Who Received One of the World’s First Face Transplants Shows Results
In 2001, Mitch Hunter was involved in a car accident that destroyed his face. After the car he was driving in hit an electrical pole, Hunter pushed the woman in the passenger seat to safety, but he himself was zapped for 5 minutes by 10,000 volts, which left him severely disfigured, and without his left leg.
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