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UCSF medical student Joe Hernandez was one of the approximately ten patients a year at SF General who donate their organs to other people.

UCSF medical student Joe Hernandez was one of the approximately ten patients a year at SF General who donate their organs to other people.

Mission Loc@l

By Heather Smith

Joe Hernandez was in his fourth year of medical school, at UCSF. He had plans to go into one of the least lucrative branches of medicine there is: primary care.

Then he ran into some misfortune. Last week the thirty year-old wound up at SF General - the hospital that he had just finished training at - in critical condition. A brawl broke out at a nightclub downtown, and when police arrived they found several people with minor injuries, and Hernandez unconscious on the floor with a head injury consistent with having been struck on the head with a blunt object.

"I was one of his teachers," says Andre Campbell, M.D., a trauma surgeon at General. "He really was an outstanding student. It's a tragedy. But in the midst of all that, what an amazing thing that his family did."

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Posted By: Mission Loc@l (Email, Twitter, Facebook) | January 20 2011 at 04:43 PM

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