MANILA, Philippines - Now that transplant surgery has reached new heights and continues to develop, we look back at the extraordinary journey doctors and patients have to go through to achieve breakthroughs not just in transplant alone but for the medical community.
What everyone sees now is the result of hard work and struggle, both for patients who dedicated lives and to doctors who faced dilemmas to achieve progress. Michael Mosley looks through the archives to identify the points for transplant surgery and explore how far science went through and how far it can go to develop transplant methods and quality of life.
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