BOSTON NEWS
December 22, 2009

“In April, we got a call that there was a heart and we went into the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He didn’t make it out,” said Susan Whitman, widow of the facial transplant donor. Before Whitman’s husband, Joseph Helfgot, died from complications of a heart transplant last April, he made it absolutely clear he wanted to be an organ donor in the event that the worst should happen. Continue Reading