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Texas Appellate Court Holds Claim For Injunctive Relief Against Transplant Program Was Not Health Care Liability Claim

May 29, 2026

An article in the New York Times reported that transplant surgeon Dr. John S. Bynon was under investigation for altering the transplant list at Memorial Hermann–Texas Medical Center and potentially denying his patients lifesaving care. Susie Garcia, Dianelys Corrales, and Robert Osuna, Jr., surviv[...]

California Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Death Due To Undiagnosed Bowel Perforation After Kidney Transplant Surgery

October 15, 2024

The two adult children of a 76-year-old man who underwent what appeared to be successful kidney transplant surgery on April 28, 2023, after their father had been on kidney dialysis for two years, have filed a medical malpractice wrongful death lawsuit in California. The day after surgery, stents wer[...]

California Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Alleges Cancerous Pancreas Implanted Into Patient

December 21, 2017

A California medical malpractice lawsuit filed on December 7, 2017 in the Superior Court of the State of California in and for the County of Sacramento alleges that the defendants transplanted into the plaintiff a pancreas and kidney from a donor who had metastatic cancer, resulting in the plaintiff[...]

Donated Kidney Thrown Out With The Trash During Surgery

September 1, 2012

On August 10, 2012, at Ohio’s University of Toledo Medical Center, a man voluntarily had surgery to have one of his healthy kidneys removed so that it could be implanted into his sister, who desperately needed a kidney transplant. In what appears to have been an unfathomable hospital error[...]

Medical Malpractice Claim For Transplanted Pancreas That Was Cancerous

August 4, 2012

On July 9, 2012, a woman in Illinois filed a medical malpractice claim against her transplant surgeon claiming that he transplanted into her a pancreas that had cancer. While the reason why the woman needed a pancreas transplant was not divulged, the life-saving surgery is typically performed on ve[...]

Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Claim For Good Deed Turned Deadly

February 25, 2012

An unmarried couple who had been together for 21 years and had an eighteen-year-old son together had to deal with a life-altering situation when the man’s kidneys were failing due to his diabetes and kidney dialysis wasn’t working well for him. Out of a sense of compassion and caring,[...]

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