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May 27, 2006
If I ever need heart surgery...
I want this guy:
A heart surgeon had to take a break from a mercy-mission operation in El Salvador so he could donate his own rare-type blood for his 8-year-old patient.
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They were running out of blood to give the boy, Weinstein said. When he asked the boy's blood type, he discovered they were both B-negative. Weinstein, who said he was an occasional blood donor - "but never like this" - said the interruption to donate a pint lasted about 20 minutes. The American Red Cross says 2 percent of the population has B-negative blood. Only AB-negative is rarer.
Dr Samuel Weinstein is the chief of pediatric cardio-thoracic surgery at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center in New York.
Posted by TJ at May 27, 2006 07:52 AM
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