NY’s Fire Department and Bellevue Hospital Considers Creating ‘Organ-Removal’ Ambulance

AP -- Saving the living has always been the No. 1 priority for a New York City ambulance crew. But a select group of paramedics may soon have a different task altogether: saving the dead. The city is considering creating a special ambulance whose crew would rush to collect the newly deceased and preserve the body so that the organs might be taken for transplant.

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