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...have sustained her injuries during a suicide attempt in which the dog apparently bit her in an effort to wake her up. That raised the question of whether she was stable enough psychologically to give consent to the operation, never mind care for herself afterward. But Dr. Jean-Michel Dubernard, one of the surgeons who operated on the woman, denied the report. "There was no suicide attempt," he told reporters. Instead, he said, the woman took a sleeping pill after a family fight, and the dog bit her when she stepped on it in the night. She was examined...
...Dubernard would have none of it. "For us, it was not a matter of being first," he told TIME. "It just happened that we had a good candidate and a good donor and an excellent team...