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Face Transplants Promised Hope. Patients Were Put Through the Unthinkable


Twenty years after surgeons in France performed the world's first face transplant, the experimental field that procedure launched is now confronting a troubling record of patient deaths, buried negative data and a healthcare system that leaves recipients financially devastated and medically vulnerab...

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