Face Transplant: Doctor Says Patient Didn't Try Suicide
Angela Doland and Jamey Keaten
Associated Press
San Jose Mercury News
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Marly (France):
The French doctor behind the world's first partial face transplant insisted Monday that his patient did not try to kill herself before being mauled by her dog -- even as a British newspaper quoted her as saying she had.
The apparent contradiction was just one of the mysteries surrounding last week's groundbreaking operation that grafted a nose, chin and lips onto a 38-year-old woman whose face had been severely disfigured by her pet Labrador.
In her hometown, neighbors said the mother of two teenage daughters generally kept to herself before the surgery and wore a surgical mask to hide her face when she walked her new dog.The case has raised questions about the ethics of performing such surgery on someone who may have suffered psychological troubles in the past.
London's Sunday Times reported the woman acknowledged in a cell phone interview that she took an overdose of sleeping pills during a fit of depression this spring. That night, she was mauled by her own Labrador, in circumstances still unclear.
Dec 06, 2005
Angela Doland and Jamey Keaten
Associated Press
San Jose Mercury News
__________________
Marly (France):
The French doctor behind the world's first partial face transplant insisted Monday that his patient did not try to kill herself before being mauled by her dog -- even as a British newspaper quoted her as saying she had.
The apparent contradiction was just one of the mysteries surrounding last week's groundbreaking operation that grafted a nose, chin and lips onto a 38-year-old woman whose face had been severely disfigured by her pet Labrador.
In her hometown, neighbors said the mother of two teenage daughters generally kept to herself before the surgery and wore a surgical mask to hide her face when she walked her new dog.The case has raised questions about the ethics of performing such surgery on someone who may have suffered psychological troubles in the past.
London's Sunday Times reported the woman acknowledged in a cell phone interview that she took an overdose of sleeping pills during a fit of depression this spring. That night, she was mauled by her own Labrador, in circumstances still unclear.
Dec 06, 2005
