Science fiction becomes science fact, sort of, with news of a Cleveland doctor's search for candidates to undergo
the first face transplant. It's not quite
FACE/OFF territory--Nicolas Cage couldn't swap his face for John Travolta's and look just like him--but it does seem the recipients might have to deal with issues of identity as in the John Woo film.
Here's the most shudder-inducing passage from the story:
But her critics say the operation is way too risky for something that is not a matter of life or death, as organ transplants are. They paint the frighteningly surreal image of a worst-case scenario: a transplanted face being rejected and sloughing away, leaving the patient worse off than before
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