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A surgeon at a Houston hospital is accused of manipulating a government database to make sure some of his own patients would never receive a liver transplant. It’s unknown how many patients may have been affected. Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston confirmed on Thursday that it found evidence that a doctor in its liver […]
A New York Times report links an executive surgeon to allegations of irregularities involving Memorial Hermann's liver and kidney transplant program.
According to the Times, the doctor made changes that denied some of his own patients from receiving liver transplants.
The "irregularities" were limited to liver transplants, the hospital said, but kidney transplants were halted because the programs share the same leadership.
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