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'Horrifying' mistake to harvest organs from a living person averted, witnesses say

By NPR  
   October 17, 2024

Natasha Miller says she was getting ready to do her job preserving donated organs for transplantation when the nurses wheeled the donor into the operating room. She quickly realized something wasn't right. Though the donor had been declared dead, he seemed to her very much alive.

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