Any major public announcement takes a great deal of planning, strategy, and thought about the risks and benefits of how it's implemented. In December 2008, Cleveland Clinic was preparing to tell the world that it completed the nation's first near-total face transplant on Connie Culp, who was shot in the face.
Since then, more than a dozen face transplants have occurred, with the story of Charla Nash, whose face was torn off by her friend's chimpanzee in February 2009 and ...