In his column, Sept. 22, Dr. Paul Donahue responded to two people asking if it’s true that some heart transplant recipients take on some aspects of the personality of their donor. His answer was a unqualified negative. Not even an “I don’t think so.”

For another point of view, people might want to read “The Heart’s Code,” a paperback by Paul Pearsall, PhD. He is a scientist/psychologist who has used his experiences with transplant patients, plus references from 22 pages of sources, to support a view opposite to Dr. Donahue’s.

From his work, one learns that the heart is more than a pump; that it carries the cellular memories that make us who we are; and that many people have, indeed, had the experience of taking on different feelings and interests after a transplant.

Unlocking the heart’s code can make it possible to understand human healing and consciousness in a new, more expanded way.

In my view, conventional science and medicine seem too ready to say that just because they haven’t experienced something or learned about it in medical school, it doesn’t exist.

Joyce White, Stoneham