Word: transplanting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ossorio identified himself to Slamon and with little preamble asked whether UCLA was still in accord with Health Net's guidelines. Slamon said yes. Then why, Ossorio asked, was UCLA going to transplant a Health Net subscriber named deMeurers...
...Slamon says he made the decision to pay for the transplant after discovering that Christy by then had already undergone the initial marrow harvest. "We should not have taken her halfway into the stream without being prepared to take her all the way across," he says. He insists that the decision was his alone, and not the result of any coercion from Health...
...injunction. "I didn't view it as being against her," he said, in a deposition last April. "They were all truths in that declaration that I had already told Christine." And yet he knew, he said, that "this declaration could be used legally to stand between her and the transplant...
...writing, thus ending the need for an injunction. On Sept. 23 Christy entered the medical center to begin treatment. Whether the treatment worked or not depends on who is speaking. Health Net officials are quick to point out how soon Christy "expired" after the procedure. Glaspy says the transplant may actually have shortened her life relative to what she might have expected with standard therapy. But Alan deMeurers recalls how the day before she entered UCLA, she could barely carry a sewing box from one room of their home to another. Within several weeks of her discharge, Alan returned home...
Last October the arbitration panel hearing Christy's case determined that Health Net should indeed have paid for the transplant. It also found the company had crossed the line in interfering with the doctor-patient relationship, specifically when Health Net officials phoned Christy's local oncologist and UCLA's Slamon. The latter call "was more heavy-handed" than either man was willing to admit, the panel concluded, and had been made to "influence or intimidate" UCLA and its doctors. Two of the three panelists further saw this interference as constituting "intentional infliction of emotional distress" on the deMeurerses because...