I'll meet you there tomorrow evening and you'll perform the transplant.
The doctor who performed the transplant said the patient, a woman, recently returned home to California.
His group also performed the first successful transplant from a cadaver a year later.
"It's what keeps a kidney alive long enough for us to perform the transplant."
By 1961, Orentreich had performed transplants on approximately 200 patients.
Dr. Friedman, who did not perform the transplant, played himself.
His one quarrel with the report was having the patient's advocates be employees of the hospital performing the transplant.
A heart donor has been found, the patient is on the table and the doctor is ready to perform the transplant.
"Do you recall approximately when you were ready to perform the transplant?"
To perform the transplant, scientists warmed the tunnel, and then spent most of the following week cooling it down again.