Dr. Cass Franklin, transplant coordinator at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines, has a signature statement when something goes well, an exuberant exclamation of “Fantastic!”
Franklin made the joyous utterance Tuesday morning after he gently extracted the kidney of Dixie Roorda and held it tenderly in his hands.
The moment began a series of three kidney transplants, with each living donor giving an organ to someone he or she had never met.
Thursday, with both donors and recipients recovering, Franklin and a team of doctors and nurses involved in the transplant introduced donors to recipients at a news conference at the hospital.
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