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Gerald Fisher's two-year checkups


Tsu-Min Tsai, M.D., (left) one of the 18 hand surgeons from Kleinert, Kutz and Associates Hand Care Center, who assisted in transplanting Jerry Fisher's hand new hand examines (right) Fisher's hand at his two-year check up.
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Jerry Fisher, nation's second recipient of a hand transplant demonstrates how he can now tie his shoes with two hands.
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Matt Scott, the world's first successful hand transplant recipient, and Jerry Fisher, the nation's second recipient, at a press conference at Jewish Hospital, 2/14/2003.
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