STAT+: After explosive federal report, Congress fears plummeting trust in organ donation
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WASHINGTON \u2014 Members of a congressional oversight committee said Tuesday that they fear public trust in organ donation has been fractured after a federal report found that an organ procurement organization ignored signs of life in patients when authorizing attempted organ removals.<\/p>\n
The hearing followed a federal investigation by the Health Resources and Services Administration<\/a> that found that a group responsible for overseeing the removal of organs from deceased patients and getting them to patients in need exhibited \u201cconcerning patterns of risk to neurologically injured patients.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cFor every doctor, the most important tenet in the patient-physician relationship is above all, do no harm, but what happened in these cases fractured the physician-patient relationship and saw patients subjected to pain and suffering that never should have occurred,\u201d House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations subcommittee Chair Rep. John Joyce (R-Pa.) said in his opening statement.<\/p>\n Continue to STAT+ to read the full story\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n