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Transplant List Called Misleading

1/3 of patients on the list not eligible for surgery

By Katherine Thompson, Newser Staff

Posted Mar 22, 2008 2:16 PM CDT

(Newser) – Thousands of patients on a national list for organ transplants are actually ineligible to receive them, the Washington Post reports. One third of the 98,000 patients on the United Network for Organ Sharing list are either too sick or too healthy to get a... Read full story »

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