"Infecting A Patient With Hepatitis C To Save His Life" - Robin Schatz
An average of 20 people die each day in the United States waiting for a donated organ. With more than 14,000 people in need of a liver, demand far outstrips supply. The statistics are even worse in New York. In part because livers have a short shelf life—just eight to 12 hours from recovery to transplant—they are first allocated to a person in the donor's state or region. And because the share of New York residents who are registered organ donors is last in the nation, available organs are even harder to come by. In July, The Mount Sinai Hospital became the second hospital in New York to transplant a hep C – infected liver into a patient who did not have the disease.
- The Mount Sinai Hospital