A CT doctor knew she had found a ‘perfect heart.’ Why what she did with it was a gift to her too.

When heart transplant surgeon Dr. Dina Al Rameni saw the “perfect heart” she would transplant into her patient, she knew “everything was going to be great.” Great was what her patient, Eugene Charles Brooks, 55, needed, as his heart was failing and he was very ill at Hartford Hospital after years of heart disease and many heart attacks. “Charles’ motto is ‘let’s go,’” Al Rameni said, referring ...