As a TN transplant center celebrated its star surgeon, leaders grew concerned about deaths on his watch

As a TN transplant center celebrated its star surgeon, leaders grew concerned about deaths on his watch

Dr. James Eason led the liver transplant program at Methodist University Hospital. An extraordinary cache of internal records details deaths under his watch.

Inside the Preventable Deaths That Happened Within a Prominent Transplant Center

by Max Blau, photography by Lucy Garrett for ProPublica ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. This story was produced in partnership with MLK50: Justice Through Journalism and co-published with the Commercial Appeal. On a brisk morning in the winter of 2019, at a standing-room-only …

Records reveal preventable deaths at Memphis transplant center

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. On a brisk morning in the winter of 2019, at a standing-room-only reception, a procession of speakers lavished praise on the surgeon who more than tripled the size of the liver transplant program at Methodist University Hospital.The lifesaving do…