Legal eagle update on policies the govern the organ trade game . . . Wherein big money rules but neither medical orgs or foundations like locals knowing as much. Read more:
KU And Saint Luke's Hospitals' Suit Says Liver Allocation Policy Will Cause Hundreds To Die
Two Kansas City area hospitals joined 12 other transplant centers this week in a lawsuit over a new liver allocation policy that they say will result in "hundreds of liver transplant candidates needlessly dying." The University of Kansas Hospital and Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City are plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit filed in Atlanta against the U.S.
"The vast majority of donated livers come from people who have recently died."
ReplyDeleteUmmmm...where else would they come from?