Edward Behn, a Massachusetts resident, recently participated in an eight-way kidney transplant at the University of Maryland Medical Center. So what's it like to give an organ to save the life of a stranger?
Here's an excerpt:
"Last week, Edward F. Behn drove to Baltimore with two kidneys and drove back home with one. Somewhere in between, eight people's lives changed.
When Mr. Behn, a 59-year-old Westboro resident, decided to donate a kidney, he triggered a chain of exchanges that culminated in four kidney transplant operations over two days. Four people gave healthy kidneys to four people who desperately needed them."
Read the full article here.