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.
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…
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.
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…
Oooh good guess. That’s so cold. I’m curious to see how this plays out.
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.