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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2008;136:1607-1608
© 2008 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

Letter to the Editor

Surgeons' informed consent

Toronto General Hospital, Department of Surgery and Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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To the Editor:

Jeffrey Shuhaiber's "Tribute to our Fallen Comrades"¹ in the June 2008 issue of the Journal recounts the tragic story of the crash of the University of Michigan Survival Flight air ambulance into the waters of Lake Michigan 1 year ago. The twinjet Cessna Citation was returning in the early morning hours with the organs they had retrieved for a double lung transplant. Four university transplant team members and two pilots died. The story of the fallen comrades of Ann Arbor turned the world's attention to their heroic role in the warrior culture of surgery. In his eloquent tribute, Shuhaiber underlines the burden of risk, including the ultimate risk of . . . [Full Text of this Article]