Word: hepatologist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
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