Wednesday, July 23, 2003

 Medical First - Tongue Transplant

Vanessa Gera, reporting for the Associated Press, tells of a tongue transplant performed by doctors in Vienna, Austria, considered to be the first such operation to be carried out on a human. I'm sure that this story has sufficient human interest value that it will be reported by just about everybody. It's included here because I think it has some entertainment value also. Give it some thought and you too will come up with such pearls as:

Should the operation be considered "putting words in his mouth?"

What if the donor had a lisp? Would it be transplanted also?

What would it mean if he came out of recovery with the taste of soap in his mouth.

So he wakes up speaking Chinese!


OK, I apologize.

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