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      "text": "Your letter accused TransMedics of pressuring hospitals to utilize our more expensive logistics. This couldn’t be further from the truth. TransMedics presents the logistics quotation to transplant centers using our NOP service. The transplant centers then have the final say on whether they want to use our services or not. We are confident,",
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      "text": "Your letter asserted that TransMedics prohibited transplant centers from training their personnel on the OCS procedure. This statement is not correct. To-date, we have trained more than 400 transplant retrieval surgeons for heart, lung, and liver transplants across the U.S. Importantly, given our clinically focused mission, we are offering to train transplant fellows at academic transplant centers by our senior retrieval surgeons on how to perform OCS donor procurement surgery.",
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