Relatives of those who died waiting for livers at now halted Houston transplant program seek answers
by The Monitor
The Monitor— DALLAS (AP) — Several relatives of patients who died while waiting for a new liver said Wednesday they want to know if their loved ones were wrongfully denied a transplant by a Houston doctor accused of manipulating the waitlist to make some patients ineligible to receive a new organ. Officials at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center […]
Houston Public Media—Her husband died waiting on a Houston hospital’s liver transplant list. Now she intends to take legal action. An increasing number of Memorial Hermann patients have died while anxiously waiting on transplant lists that could've granted them life-saving organs, according to data from the Organ Procurement Transplantation Network.
ABC News—Pennsylvania father seeks answers after son dies following alleged game of tag. A Pennsylvania father is seeking answers after his teen son died on Friday night after an alleged game of tag, the father told ABC News.
dailym.ai—Heartbreak as mother-of-two Emily Presley dies after 18 weeks on a ventilator and a DOUBLE lung transplant after going for routine check up for a cold and finding she was dying from horror disease. Teacher Emily Presley, 46, was in the hospital for over 16 months. At one point, she had to undergo two double lung transplants within days. She died surrounded by family on Tuesday morning at 4am