Her healthy heart was removed with the lungs as part of a 'package' and was given to David Hamilton, a man who had suffered several heart attacks over twenty years.

I kept comparing the mind to other parts of the body - the heart, the lungs, the liver - and telling them that it, too, can become unwell, that it, too, sometimes needs care and medicine.

IN THE hierarchy of transplant surgery,replacing a bronchus (the passage from the main windpipe, the trachea, into alung) does not sound difficult compared with, say, plumbing in a new heart.