The Beat Goes On From This Heartfelt Gift

In the seventies, heart transplants were relatively new. That’s when UW Hospital and Clinics in Madison started its program; there are also three hospitals in Milwaukee that do the procedure. It’s more common now and patients are surviving longer.Shamane Mills visited a Wisconsin woman who is celebrating twenty years with someone else’s heart beating inside her, a lifesaving gift from a stranger whose identity she’ll never know…