A New York doctor is demanding that his estranged wife pay him $1.5 million to compensate him for the kidney he gave her. The doctor, who is now involved in a messy divorce, has hired a high profile lawyer. Richard Batista, a Cornell graduate, is a prominent Long Island vascular surgeon, father of three and married to a nurse. But when his wife, Dawnell, went into renal failure in 2001, Batista ...

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