A hospital is liable after transplanting a diseased heart. “The surgeon was set, a donated heart waited in a cooler and the patient was brought in. Carl Longnecker’s chest was opened and his heart removed. When the surgeon lifted the lid on the cooler, he immediately saw what he would later describe as signs the donor heart was diseased.
But the surgeon had no alternative but to place the donated heart inside the chest of the 58-year-old Woodstock man. Longnecker died three days later without waking.”
