In 2018, knowing that I would become infected, I received a heart transplant from a donor with hepatitis C who’d died from a heroin overdose. Accepting a high-risk organ was a deliberate decision made long before I was offered the heart, and several factors figured heavily in my thought process.…
Getting Comfortable with Risk
In 2018, knowing that I would become infected, I received a heart transplant from a donor with hepatitis C who’d died from a heroin overdose. Accepting a high-risk organ was a deliberate decision made long before I was offered the heart, and several factors figured heavily in my thought process.…