Nancy Andrews and her husband decided to undergo in vitro fertilization from a clinic in New York. They were so excited to be expecting again. Their new addition named Jessica joined the family on October 19, 2004. When Jessica was born they noticed she did not look like them. Jessica was black. The father is white and the mother is mixed. Doctors at the New York Medical Services for Reproductive Medicine did DNA tests and found out they had given Nancy the wrong sperm.
Jésica Santillán was a 17 year old girl who died 2 weeks after receiving the wrong heart and lungs. Jesica was a Mexican immigrant that came to the U.S. three years before to receive treatment for a life-threatening heart condition. Jesica went to Duke University Hospital in Durham, N.C. to have her transplant. The doctors did not check to see if the organs would match her blood type which caused Jesica her life. Jesica had type O blood and they gave her organs from a person that had type-A blood. After they put in the wrong organs she went into a coma. The doctors tried to reverse the situation by taking her back into surgery to switch the organs back but she suffered severe brain damage and died right after.
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