Father Fights Hospital Over Brain-Dead Teen's Surgery

Augusta Chronicle, The › April 23, 2007

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OKLAHOMA CITY - A 16-year-old Russian boy found a hospital halfway around the world willing to remove his brain tumor for free.

His father says there was one condition - that his treatment could be filmed for a feel-good story by a local television station about the charitable operation.

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Father Fights Hospital Over Brain-Dead Teen's Surgery

But the positive story St. Anthony Hospital and neurosurgeon Paul Francel hoped to tell became tragic when the surgery left David Kurbanov brain d...

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