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.
For decades, Dr. J. Steve Bynon Jr., a #transplant#surgeon in #Texas, gained accolades & national prominence for his work, including by helping to enforce professional standards in the country’s sprawling #OrganTransplant system.
But ofcls are now investigating allegations that Dr. Bynon was secretly manipulating a government database to make some of his own patients ineligible to receive new livers, potentially depriving them of lifesaving care.