Maladministration of Organs: Post about organ recipients and the institutions which are supposed to match them up with donated organs. Intro: "More specifically, how one such institution, the Kaiser HMO of Northern California, quite spectacularly failed several thousand people who were depending on them, by not matching them up. The story has been around since early May, when it was broken by Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber in the Los Angeles Times, since confirmed by an investigation by Medicare/Medicaid. It doesn't seem to have gotten all that much attention among the blogs, but it's outrageous, and deserves, for that reason alone, to be better known." Link
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