> I already said: First time surgery that might not work is an experiment as much as a treatment. I don’t think changing the name of what happened from “treatm

> I already said: First time surgery that might not work is an experiment as much as a treatment. I don’t think changing the name of what happened from “treatment” to “experiment” tells me anything new. If another person with a roughly identical health status but without the violent history is also willing to accept the pig heart, then the decision must be made to use the scarce resources to treat Ed or the “non-violent” person. > we'd find ourselves regarding this operation as his sacrifice for the greater good. I agree that people may be talking about the transplant and Ed differently had he died on the table.