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Roy Calne, a pioneer of organ transplant surgery, dies at 93

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Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave While making the rounds at a London hospital in 1950, a medical student named Roy Calne was presented with a young man dying from kidney failure. Make him comfortable, Dr. Calne was told, because the patient would be dead within two weeks. The order troubled Dr. Calne … Read more

Roy Calne, a surgeon who led Europe’s first liver transplant, has died aged 93

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LONDON — Roy Calne, a pioneer of organ transplantation who led Europe’s first liver transplant operation in 1968, has died aged 93. Calne’s family said he died late Saturday in Cambridge, England, where he was professor emeritus of surgery at Cambridge University. Born in 1930, Calne trained as a doctor at Guy’s Hospital in London … Read more