A Houston hospital is investigating whether a doctor altered a transplant list to make his patients ineligible for care. A disproportionate number of them have died while waiting for new organs.
    • SacralPlexus@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      My guess would be that the motive was trying to ensure that the patients who received a transplant there would be successful. In other words, trying to ‘cherry pick’ which patients make it to transplant in order to make their success rate artificially high. Being a transplant surgeon can be very prestigious and if your numbers make you the best of the best…

      • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        one of the patients denied seems to have been a toddler. I would think someone that young would be a good candidate to adapt to a new liver, seeing how the liver works. Makes me wonder what his idea of who should get a liver is.

    • ReiRose@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Article doesn’t say or mention if it was a specific type of patient who’s records were altered. However, I’m going to assume this dr has a god complex. If its true that he altered records so some people couldn’t get transplants, it’s because he believed they didn’t deserve it.