Who needs death panels with doctors like these?

Published June 14, 2010 4:00am ET



UK doctors say they followed government standards for selecting donor organs when they implanted a 28 year-old woman with the lungs of a 30-year smoker. She died of pneumonia five months later.

The family of Lyndsey Scott, a cystic fibrosis patient, did not know that the transplanted lungs were donated by a life-long smoker.

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