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Firefighter receives extensive facial transplant surgery

In 2001, volunteer firefighter Patrick Hardison was severely burnt while answering a call for a house fire. A team of more than 100 medical professionals at NYU Langone Medical Center performed a 26-hour transplant surgery on him in August, and Hardison was about to reunite with his children weeks after the surgery. Elaine Quijano reports.
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