Katie's Face Transplant
By WTAM Staff
August 15, 2018
FOR MEDIA: Woman is the youngest face transplant patient in the U.S.
— ClevelandClinicNews (@CleClinicNews) August 15, 2018
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(Cleveland)-Katie Stubblefield knows desperation. In March of 2014, Katie shot herself in the face. She lived. It would take a team of eleven doctors and specialists at Cleveland Clinic to help save her life and give her the first total face transplant in the country--the third face transplant the clinic has performed. year later she is on the road to recovery.
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