Holding Your Own Heart is Possible! An 'Unusual Practice' Done In Many Hospitals

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As is the custom, hospitals would side-tracked the organs removed from a patient after an examination. On the other hand, Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas, launched an unusual program called "Heart-to-heart."

Out of the ordinary, the program lets the transplant patient hold the removed organs. This program has been running for two years now when it was launched back in 2014.

It all begun, when one cardiac pathologist at Baylor, Dr. William C. Roberts joined the institution in 1993. Dr. William has been keeping in reserving the removed organs to study later storage.

Dr. William takes a stand that this kind of process is significant. Hence, the heads allow him to carry out one of the substantial papers on heart diseases and analyze hearts collected between 1997 and 2015.

However, Dr. Williams still continues to bring up his idea and he started to let his patients see and touch their hearts if requested. As he done this, Dr. Williams was recognized by the patients and medics with his unusual medical practice. However, because of this significant event, the hospital successfully started the "heart-to-heart" program.

As of now, it already gave an incredible experience to more than 70 people to see their diseased body part and clenched it before it is stored for further study. Far beyond imagination, the heart-shaped heart has in mind is often gray or covered with fats but patients who experienced it were overwhelmed with emotions.

In Atlas Obscura, John Bell, the first patient of this program shares, "I can't actually explain why. I was just almost overcome with emotion when I was able to hold it."

This has been the newest trend among the medical centers because Baylor is not the only one doing this unusual practice. Recently, doctors from Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, in New Jersey allowed their patients to touch their own hearts if requested, Daily Mail reported.

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