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Joe Kiani

We could cut 180,000 preventable hospital deaths a year. Here's exactly why we haven't

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Anders Pederson died trying to save his sister.

From the time Kelly was a toddler, Anders was her protector. When she was just 15 months old, a serious illness damaged her kidneys. Doctors warned the family that one day she might need a transplant. Decades later, when Kelly turned 30 and her kidneys began to fail, Anders didn’t hesitate, he immediately volunteered to donate one of his.

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