Until now, he said, only the transplant surgeon was required to check.
Most transplant surgeons say yes - if the patient has not had a drink for at least six months.
There are no stories I can think of in which any transplant surgeon took out a perfectly good heart to turn a profit.
Even at best, the new hands will never be the same as the natural hands, the transplant surgeons said.
Men's increased concern over how they look is reflected in the kind of patients who show up at a transplant surgeon's doorstep.
"There are transplant surgeons who think they absolutely know best," Zink says.
The heart was a major prize for transplant surgeons.
But the officials at the national program, transplant surgeons, and senators said they soon began hearing reports from patients that deeply disturbed them.
The broker promised that one of the top transplant surgeons in Israel would be flying with them to perform the operation.
But thanks to a team of pioneering transplant surgeons in America, Laura can look forward to a happy life.