Tucson hospital: Patient denied transplant coverage diesUPDATE: The Daily Beast and The Political Carnival have also reported this story.
By Stephanie Innes, Arizona Daily Star Arizona Daily Star
Posted: Wednesday, January 5, 2011 4:57 pm
Tucson's University Medical Center confirmed today that a patient who was refused a liver transplant because of state budget cuts has died.
The death was "most likely" due to the defunding of the organ transplant, said Jo Marie Gellerman, University of Arizona Department of Surgery spokeswoman.
The patient is the second person to reportedly die while waiting for one of the transplants that were cut.
Wednesday, January 05, 2011
ANOTHER ARIZONA DEATH
This should be unacceptable; it is certainly immoral.
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