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r. Anton Vanderhoek checked to be sure the subjects were properly anesthetized. Not that it mattered all that much. And the two assistants he’d brought with him from Johannesburg were trained and mostly reliable. Still, they sometimes did sloppy work. He couldn’t tolerate that. Organs must be properly excised, stored and transported if his team was to collect the promised fees.
Using a white maker, Dr. Vanderhoek began to draw incision guides on the first of two subjects slated for the day’s operations. White markers were necessary for work on subjects with such dark skin color. He’d learned that little trick doing surgery in his native country—before the incident which cost him his license to operate in South Africa. That incident also cost him his commission as an
