Sometimes science just melts your brain and gives hope to thousands of people at a time.

A transplant surgeon who completed an unprecedented eight-way kidney swap this week said Tuesday he believes such intricate, multistate exchanges can drastically reduce the number of patients waiting for eligible donors.

“We finally beat the ‘Grey’s Anatomy‘ record for domino transplants,” Montgomery joked at a news conference hours after the last in a series of surgeries was completed Monday night. “We hope this creates a movement that encourages other transplant centers to adopt the model we used

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