Texas Surgeon Is Accused of Secretly Denying Liver Transplants

Houston hospital says doctor’s changes to a database made patients ineligible for liver transplants

A Houston hospital has halted its liver and kidney transplant programs after it says a doctor manipulated a database for liver transplant patients, making them ineligible to receive a new organ. Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center said in a statement Friday that their ongoing investigation found that a doctor had made “inappropriate changes” in a database for people awaiting liver transplants. Memorial Hermann’s statement didn’t name the docto…

Memorial Hermann halts kidney, liver transplants after report of altered records

New report alleges document manipulation led to patients not receiving life-saving organs.

Texas surgeon accused of secretly blocking patients from getting transplants

The motive for the alleged data manipulation is unknown.

Transplant doctor accused of secretly denying new livers to patients who later died

Memorial Hermann in Texas has halted two of its transplant programmes amid the accusations

Texas Surgeon Accused of Manipulating Government Database to Deny Liver Transplants

A respected Houston transplant surgeon has been accused of altering database information for patients waiting on a new liver — and now, his former employer is admitting that parts of the allegations are true. As the New York Times reports, surgeon J. Steve Bynon of Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston allegedly changed government database records to preclude his own patients from getting liver transplants, and many of them died while…

Houston hospital halts liver and kidney transplants after learning a doctor manipulated some records

HOUSTON (AP) -- A Houston hospital has halted its liver and kidney transplant programs after discovering that a doctor manipulated records for liver transplant candidates, according to a media report.