He hired Oz in 1986 and then, several years later, when he served as chairman of the surgical department at New York-Presbyterian, assigned him to his transplant team.

NEWYORKER: The Operator

Prof Constantin Coussios of the Department of Engineering Science has been working on the project for 15 years in partnership with Prof Peter Friend, of the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences.

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In the housewares department was a display cabinet of knives, gleaming with surgical allure.

NEWYORKER: Raj, Bohemian

The department said that given the balance of risks, surgeons could return to using re-usable surgical equipment which should be sterilised in the normal way.

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