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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003;126:2107-2108
© 2003 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the editor

Medical resources and capital punishment

A. Sampath Kumar, MCh

Department of Cardiothoracic/Vascular Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India

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To the Editor:

The editorial in the March 2003 issue of the Journal on heart transplantation for convicted felons1 made interesting reading. McKneally and Sade agreed that human life should be preserved without question.

A similar dilemma confronted me once, when a prisoner awaiting death sentence was brought in for a valve replacement while his application for mercy was being considered. Irrespective of his clinical status, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. 126: 2108-2108. [Full Text]





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