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Archive Home > 2005 > July > 31 > Taking his next breath

Taking his next breath

By Kayley Mendenhall / The Bulletin
July 31, 2005

SAN FRANCISCO "

With a touch that is at once confident and ever so careful, Dr. Charles W. Hoopes gently lowered a white globe of tissue into the red, gaping chest cavity of former Deschutes County Sheriff's deputy Matt Kamasz.

The lung, donated from an unknown person, began to turn pink....

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