ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Pete Dobrovitz, a former TV reporter who underwent a lifesaving, living-donor kidney transplant in 2002 after placing a classified ad in a newspaper that read "WANTED: Your Spare Kidney," died Tuesday of complications from food poisoning, his family said. He was 51.
Dobrovitz had two cadaver-kidney transplants in the 1980s that eventually failed. Nearly 60,000 Americans are signed up for a kidney transplant. Every day, nine of them die.
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