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Doctor who helmed abdominal transplant program reportedly manipulated records to make patients ineligible to receive liversA prominent hospital in Houston has halted its liver and kidney transplant programs after officials said one of its doctors secretly manipulated records to make some of his patients ineligible to receive new livers.Memorial Hermann-Texas medical center said it discovered “a pattern of irregularities” with donor acceptance criteria after an investigation found problems with...
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Memorial Hermann Hospital is actively working to reactivate its kidney transplant program following recent events.
The motive for the alleged data manipulation is unknown.