Posted AT 1:18 AM EST on 26/02/08
How the Oscars impeded organ transplants
As a fleet of jets carrying Hollywood North types flocked to Los Angeles for the Academy Awards, a true race-against-time thriller was unfolding off-screen.
The sudden death of a man in rural British Columbia last Thursday gave the B.C. Transplant Society mere hours to harvest the donor's healthy organs and get them to operating rooms in Vancouver.
So, just as it had done 23 times last year alone, B.C.
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