NY considers creating 'organ-removal' ambulance
Thursday, June 5, 2008 - 14:21
in Biology & Nature
NEW YORK (AP) -- Saving the living has always been the No. 1 priority for a New York City ambulance crew. But a select group of paramedics may soon have a different task altogether: saving the dead. The city is considering creating a special ambulance whose crew would rush to collect the newly deceased and preserve the body so that the organs might be taken for transplant....