Visionaries: For Surgeon, Face Transplants Help Patients Emerge From 'Social Death'

... and he offered to work for no pay, and I told him that was a bad idea," recalled Dr. Elof Eriksson, chief of plastic surgery at the Brigham. Pomahac attributes his ambition to growing up in communist Czechoslovakia, where his father, a chemical ...

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