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Monday, June 4, 2007

TV Kidney Competition was a Hoax

Via BBC NEWS:

A Dutch TV contest that purported to show a dying woman choose a patient to receive her kidneys was a hoax.

The "donor" in the show was in fact an actress - though the three people vying for an organ were real patients in need of a kidney transplant.
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