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...which confirmed that MUSC did not have a liver-transplant contract with Hunter's carrier, Physician's Health Plan. But, Rubin was told, Duke, where he knew the liver people, did have a PHP contract. So the physician recommended that Hunter go there. Rubin placed a call to Duke hepatologist James Trotter, explaining that he had a seriously ill transplant candidate and that he understood that the insurer, PHP, had a contract with Duke to do liver transplants. Trotter, according to Rubin, said he recognized PHP as a Duke contractor and arranged to have a plane pick Hunter...
...Hepatologist Trotter told Richard O'Connor, PHP's medical director, that Hunter was too sick to travel. O'Connor replied that the patient could stay at Duke through the weekend, but if he stabilized during that time, PHP wanted him flown to Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Tuesday. O'Connor also told Trotter, according to the insurer, that if Hunter's condition worsened over the weekend, Duke was "authorized" to perform a transplant...
Consumption of a poison produced by a South African fungus may cause high rates of liver cancer found in many areas of the world, says a Harvard Medical School hepatologist...
...dying child. For that reason, university officials required a two-week delay between the time Teresa and her husband John signed the consent forms and the date of the transplant, so that the family could reconsider the decision. "It was purely voluntary," says Dr. Peter Whitington, a pediatric hepatologist on the transplant team. "I think this mother, even if she had greater complications, would believe she did the right thing. I believe this father, even if he lost his wife, would believe he did the right thing...
...least one member of Falk's award committee was familiar with tales of Eppinger's past. Dr. Hans Popper, 80, former dean of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and a pre-eminent hepatologist, was a student of Eppinger's in Vienna in the 1930s. Popper's feelings toward his former mentor are ambiguous. On one hand, he says, Eppinger was a "cold, unapproachable man" who, throughout his career, was "ruthless as far as human life was concerned." On the other hand, Popper, who is Jewish, feels he owes his life...
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