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posted by martyb on Wednesday April 18 2018, @01:49PM   Printer-friendly
from the facing-reality dept.

A man who had previously received a face transplant has received another face transplant, following complications with an antibiotic:

The first person in the world to receive two facial transplants says he is feeling well, three months after his latest groundbreaking operation.

Jérôme Hamon had his first transplanted face removed last year after signs of rejection following a treatment with an incompatible antibiotic during a cold. The 43 year old remained in a hospital in Paris without a face for two months while a compatible donor was sought. He said: "The first [face] I accepted immediately. This time it's the same."

Mr Hamon suffers from neurofibromatosis type 1, a genetic condition that caused severe disfiguring tumours on his face. His first transplant, in 2010, was a success, but he caught a common cold in 2015 and was given antibiotics. The drug was incompatible with the immunosuppressive treatment he was having to prevent a rejection of the transplanted material. The first signs of rejection came in 2016 and last November, the face, suffering from necrosis, had to be removed.


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  • (Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Wednesday April 18 2018, @04:47PM (6 children)

    by wonkey_monkey (279) on Wednesday April 18 2018, @04:47PM (#668634) Homepage

    Man Becomes the First Person to Receive a "Second Face Transplant"

    Using quotes make it sound like it's some kind of paraphrase, that he didn't literally get a second face transplant, when that is in fact exactly what he got.

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  • (Score: 4, Touché) by takyon on Wednesday April 18 2018, @05:53PM (1 child)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Wednesday April 18 2018, @05:53PM (#668660) Journal

    1. To avoid any confusion about it being his second or third face.

    2. To trigger one particular pedant.

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    • (Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Thursday April 19 2018, @10:30PM

      by wonkey_monkey (279) on Thursday April 19 2018, @10:30PM (#669367) Homepage

      1. To avoid any confusion about it being his second or third face.

      How does it do that?

      2. To trigger one particular pedant.

      Well, pardon me for caring how Soylent comes across, I'm sure.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @09:54PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 18 2018, @09:54PM (#668740)
    Quotes like those usually mean it's a verbatim quote from a source. Perhaps those were the precise words used by Mr Hamon or one of his physicians.
    • (Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Thursday April 19 2018, @10:34PM (2 children)

      by wonkey_monkey (279) on Thursday April 19 2018, @10:34PM (#669369) Homepage

      If they were, they're nowhere in the linked article. And there's no reason to specify that it's a quote in any case; it's factual accurate. Doing so only muddies the meaning.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 19 2018, @11:23PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 19 2018, @11:23PM (#669391)

        If they were, they're nowhere in the linked article.

        So? The headline might be the only place where the verbatim quote from a source was actually used in the article. And there is reason to specify that it is an actual quote: if that's exactly what a source said when they were interviewed. That's the original purpose of quotes, and if you keep seeing a different purpose for them, that's not the BBC's fault. The BBC does it everywhere on their site. It's not hard to find more examples [bbc.com] of articles [bbc.com] where [bbc.com] they do the same [bbc.com] thing [bbc.com].

        • (Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Friday April 20 2018, @04:07PM

          by wonkey_monkey (279) on Friday April 20 2018, @04:07PM (#669688) Homepage

          In all those cases they are reporting claims, not statements of fact, except perhaps the last in which it's possibly been done more to create a shorter headline.

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