This isn't like a heart transplant. There is no urgency, and you can sit back and take six months to a year to determine if this is a good candidate.

Most insurers are going to pick the most cost-effective option. Most likely [face transplants] are going to only be an option to those who are paying cash. But that applies to all of medicine. Who can get a cochlear implant? Does it come down to if they can pay for it?

Emotionally, there is something more appealing about not having to wake up and put something on, but you are trading a non-life-threatening condition, for a life-threatening condition.

Depression is common among patients with heart attacks. About 22 percent of all heart attack patients are depressed.

We are now recognizing that it involves his heart, his liver, the kidneys. And so multiple organs are involved, and so he is in critical shape.

The likelihood is that the hole in the heart was of no relevance.