Easily the most amazing story I’ve read in a long time. First because a woman’s life was saved by removing her heart, operating on it while it sat in a bowl of ice, and then replaced in her chest. Second because the whole operation was made possible because she found the procedure and a surgeon to perform it using the Internet when her own doctors hadn’t heard of the operation.
The latter point makes me wonder why there isn’t an expert system that would allow doctors to diagnose situations like this.