Dr. Barry Dworkin

Liver transplant criteria not discriminatory toward people suffering with alcoholism but based on risk assessment of health outcomes.

Health Headlines Commentary for December 14, 2017

Source:

Woman in critical condition from liver failure can’t get transplant due to protocols

 

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