"Organ transplantation always results in a crossing of paths: there is a life that ends and another that regains vital energy: hours of anguish and despair on the one hand, of apprehension and joy on the other. A cruel but inevitable crossing." These are the words of Dr. Paolo Montalto, a gastroenterologist who graduated from the University of Florence's Medical School after studying at the Hepatobiliary Unit of the Free Hospital in London.