"Access to Liver Transplants Is Worse For New Yorkers" - Sander Florman, MD
Due to an antiquated system that distributes organs along arbitrary regional lines that were developed more than 30 years ago, where patients live has a disproportionate effect on their opportunity to receive an organ, and consequently, on their risk of dying while on the waiting list, writes Sander Florman, MD, director of the Recanati/Miller Transplant Institute at The Mount Sinai Hospital. While the geographic inequity is clear, a solution remains elusive. Several models for distributing organs are now being considered. Because the current system was designed for purely administrative purposes, not equitable liver distribution, it has been outperformed by nearly every model that has been tested.
- Sander Florman, MD, Professor, Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Director, Recanati/Miller Transplantation Institute
