William Fulkerson, M.D., who is the CEO of Duke University Medical Center, answers questions from the media during a press conference held February 20, 2003 at Duke University regarding the botched heart-lung transplant procedure that took place with patient [Jesica Santillan. Santillan received a heart-lung transplant at Duke University Medical Center with organs that did not match her blood type and a second set of organs became available to Santillan early Thursday morning. Doctors have given Santillan a fifty-fifty chance of surviving the second surgery.] 

Magdalena Santillan listens to questions from the media during a press
conference held February 20, 2003 at the Brookwood Inn in Durham, North
Carolina, regarding the botched heart-lung transplant procedure that
took place with her daughter Jesica Santillan. Jesica received a
heart-lung transplant at Duke University Medical Center with organs
that did not match her blood type. A second set of organs became
available to Santillan early Thursday morning and following a
successful transplantation of the new organs, doctors have given Jesica
a fifty-fifty chance of survival. REUTERS/Ellen Ozier

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Melesio Huerta listens to questions from the media during a press
conference held February 20, 2003 at the Brookwood Inn in Durham, North
Carolina regarding the botched heart-lung transplant procedure that
took place with his daughter Jesica Santillan. Jesica received a
heart-lung transplant at Duke University Medical Center with organs
that did not match her blood type. A second set of organs became
available to Santillan early Thursday morning and following a
successful transplantation of the new organs, doctors have given Jesica
a fifty-fifty chance of survival. REUTERS/Ellen Ozier

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Magdalena Santillan (R), her husband Melesio Huerta (L), and her niece
America Santillan (C), who is also acting as translator, listen to
questions from the media during a press conference held February 20,
2003 at the Brookwood Inn in Durham, Nort Carolina regarding the
botched heart-lung transplant procedure that took place with her
daughter Jesica Santillan. Jesica received a heart-lung transplant at
Duke University Medical Center with organs that did not match her blood
type and a second set of organs became available to Santillan early
Thursday morning. Doctors have given Jesica a fifty-fifty chance of
surviving the second surgery. REUTERS/Ellen Ozier

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Magdalena Santillan listens to questions from the media during a press
conference held February 20, 2003 at the Brookwood Inn in Durham, North
Carolina regarding the botched heart-lung transplant procedure that
took place with her daughter Jesica Santillan. Jesica received a
heart-lung transplant at Duke University Medical Center with organs
that did not match her blood type and a second set of organs became
available to Santillan early Thursday morning. Doctors have given
Jesica a fifty-fifty chance of surviving the second surgery.
REUTERS/Ellen Ozier

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Magdalena Santillan (R), her husband Melesio Huerta (L), and her niece
America Santillan (C), who is also acting as translator, listen to
questions from the media during a press conference held February 20,
2003 at the Brookwood Inn in Durham, North Carolina regarding the
botched heart-lung transplant procedure that took place with her
daughter Jesica Santillan. Jesica received a heart-lung transplant at
Duke University Medical Center with organs that did not match her blood
type and a second set of organs became available to Santillan early
Thursday morning. Doctors have given Jesica a fifty-fifty chance of
surviving the second surgery. REUTERS/Ellen Ozier

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Nita Mahoney (L) and Rena Harvey (R), who are friends of heart-lung
transplant patient Jesica Santillan, comfort one another as they listen
to a press conference held February 20, 2003 at Duke University
regarding the heart-lung transplant procedure that took place with
patient Jesica Santillan. Santillan received a heart-lung transplant at
Duke University Medical Center with organs that did not match her blood
type and a second set of organs became available to Santillan early
Thursday morning. Doctors have given Santillan a fifty-fifty chance of
surviving the second surgery. REUTERS/Ellen Ozier

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William Fulkerson, M.D., who is the CEO of Duke University Medical
Center, answers questions from the media during a press conference held
February 20, 2003 at Duke University regarding the botched heart-lung
transplant procedure that took place with patient Jesica Santillan.
Santillan received a heart-lung transplant at Duke University Medical
Center with organs that did not match her blood type and a second set
of organs became available to Santillan early Thursday morning. Doctors
have given Santillan a fifty-fifty chance of surviving the second
surgery. REUTERS/Ellen Ozier

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Duane Davis, M.D., (R), who is the surgical director of Duke University
Medical Center's lung transplant program answers questions from the
media during a press conference held February 20, 2003 at Duke
University regarding the botched heart-lung transplant procedure that
took place with patient Jesica Santillan. Santillan received a
heart-lung transplant at Duke University Medical Center with organs
that did not match her blood type and a second set of organs became
available to Santillan early Thursday morning. Davis, who assisted on
the second transplant surgery, has given Santillan a fifty-fifty chance
of surviving the second surgery. REUTERS/Ellen Ozier

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William Fulkerson, M.D., (L), who is the CEO of Duke University Medical
Center, listens as Duane Davis, M.D., (R), who is the surgical director
of Duke University Medical Center's lung transplant program answers
questions from the media during a press conference held February 20,
2003 at Duke University regarding the botched heart-lung transplant
procedure that took place with patient Jesica Santillan. Santillan
received a heart-lung transplant at Duke University Medical Center with
organs that did not match her blood type and a second set of organs
became available to Santillan early Thursday morning. Davis, who
assisted on the second transplant surgery, has given Santillan a
fifty-fifty chance of surviving the second surgery. REUTERS/Ellen
Ozier

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Duane Davis, M.D., (R), who is the surgical director of Duke University
Medical Center's lung transplant program, listens as William Fulkerson,
M.D., (L) CEO of Duke University Medical Center, answers questions from
the media during a press conference held February 20, 2003 at Duke
University regarding the botched heart-lung transplant procedure that
took place with patient Jesica Santillan. Santillan received a
heart-lung transplant at Duke University Medical Center with organs
that did not match her blood type and a second set of organs became
available to Santillan early Thursday morning. Davis, who assisted on
the second transplant surgery, has given Santillan a fifty-fifty chance
of surviving the second surgery. REUTERS/Ellen Ozier

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Eight year-old Ulises Santillan, brother of Jesica Santillan, listens
as the founder of Jessica's Hope Chest Inc., an organization founded to
help the family of Jessica Santillan secure funds to pay for her
medical treatment, answers questions from the media during a press
conference at the Brookwood Inn in Durham, North Carolina, February 20,
2003. Seventeen year-old Jesica, who received a heart and lung
transplant from a donor with the wrong blood type two weeks ago,
underwent surgery on Thursday to give her a second chance with a new
set of organs. REUTERS/Ellen Ozier

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Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina on February
20, 2003. Seventeen year-old Jesica Santillan, who received a heart and
lung transplant from a donor with the wrong blood type two weeks ago,
underwent surgery on Thursday to give her a second chance with a new
set of organs. "Donor heart and lungs have been located for 17-year-old
Santillan," Duke Medical Center spokesman Jeff Molter said.
REUTERS/Ellen Ozier

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Mack Mahoney, founder of Jessica's Hope Chest Inc., an organization
founded to help the family of Jessica Santillan secure funds to pay for
her medical treatment; answers questions during a press conference
February 20, 2003 at the Brookwood Inn in Durham, North Carolina to
brief the media on Santillan's medical condition. Santillan, who
received a heart and lung transplant from a donor with the wrong blood
type two weeks ago, underwent surgery on Thursday to give her a second
chance with a new set of organs. REUTERS/Ellen Ozier

elo/SV 

Mack Mahoney (R), the founder of Jessica's Hope Chest Inc., an
organization founded to help the family of Jessica Santillan secure
funds to pay for her medical treatment, is emotional during a press
conference held February 20, 2003 at the Brookwood Inn in Durham, North
Carolina to brief the media on Santillan's medical condition. Santillan
received a heart-lung transplant at Duke University Medical Center with
organs that did not match her blood type and a second set of organ
became available to Santillan early Thursday morning. Santillan's
doctors have given her a fifty-fifty chance of surviving the second
surgery. REUTERS/Ellen Ozier

ELO 

U2 lead singer Bono walks behind Jean Corr's coffin in Dundalk Novemver 27. Jean Corr, 57, mother of the members of the Irish pop band 'The Corrs' died last Wednesday from a respiratory disease while awaiting a lung transplant.

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Stacy Sewell,21, of Quartz Hill,California,a cystic fibrosis patient who successfully underwent the world's first double lobar lung transplant in January 1993 answers questions at a news conference prior to her release March 5 from USC University Hospital in Los Angeles. Sewell's parents donated portions of their lungs for the transplant