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Daniel Allen Freelance journalist

What about transplants for the two-faced

Did you see those press reports that said in six months’ time surgeons will be able to slap a dead bod’s mug onto the be-barked bonce of anyone who had been scarred or disfigured? It seems that face transplants are coming and, after due reflection, I offer this considered response: yuck! what a terrible prospect. But then I have never been pulled more dead than alive from a blazing wreck with no hair and molten features, and if I had maybe I would react more effusively.

Nursing Standard. 17, 13, 20-20. doi: 10.7748/ns.17.13.20.s32

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