“That’s everybody’s worst nightmare, right?" said organ preservationist Nyckoletta Martin. "Being alive during surgery and knowing that someone is going to cut you open" Vanessa Etienne is a Staff ...

The “brain dead” Kentucky organ donor who woke up on the operating table endured tragedy and mental health issues that eventually spiraled with his drug overdose, according to a new report. Thomas “TJ ...

In a medical incident that created shockwaves, a Kentucky man who had been declared brain dead following a cardiac arrest woke up just as surgeons in his home state were preparing to harvest his ...