MONTREAL — In a Canadian medical first, surgeons at Montreal’s Maisonneuve-Rosemont hospital announced Wednesday they’d performed a face transplant, giving a badly disfigured Quebec man a second lease on life. “You’re living this very difficult existence. “He’s so mentally tough that even with everything that was done, he’s already begun (accepting) the new face,” Borsuk said. Louis Beaulieu of Transplant Quebec said the donor was identified and special consent obtained for the facial transplant procedure, which was done in an ethical and respectful way given the donor’s family was dealing with a recent death. As for the ethics of transplanting another human’s face, Borsuk said he didn’t view it as different from any other transplant, adding the face has taken on an added importance thanks to social media.

Source: National Post September 12, 2018 14:03 UTC