December 29, 2010:
Today’s Boston Globe contains a long obituary following the death Monday of the first human kidney transplant donor. It recalls the story of a remarkable event 56 years ago that ushered in the age of human organ transplantation. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=ronald-lee-herrick&pid=147481890
Today’s Boston Globe contains a long obituary following the death Monday of the first human kidney transplant donor. It recalls the story of a remarkable event 56 years ago that ushered in the age of human organ transplantation. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=ronald-lee-herrick&pid=147481890
But the Globe’s obituary of 79-year-old Ronald Lee Herrick, and related stories in hundreds of other newspapers (and NPR), fail to recall an important element of that achievement.
