What Love Costs the Healthy
On December 23, 1954, Ronald Herrick did something no healthy person had ever done before. He lay down on an operating table at Peter Bent...
This is a contemporary on sacrifice and new life, drawing on Romans 12:1.
On December 23, 1954, Ronald Herrick did something no healthy person had ever done before. He lay down on an operating table at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston and let Dr. Joseph Murray cut into his perfectly healthy body — not to fix anything wrong with him, but to save his identical twin brother Richard, who was dying of chronic kidney disease.…
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