The sickest liver transplant candidates should be first in line when a donor liver becomes available, but transplant centers are increasingly removing these individuals from the waiting list, considering them “too sick to transplant,” an analysis of nationwide transplant data finds. The study appears online as an “article in press” on the Journal of the…
ACS’ Stance on Opioids
This first appeared HERE on NewsScope: Surgeons in Tennessee, Connecticut, and Oregon spoke out on leading state health care issues during American College of Surgeons (ACS) Chapter Lobby Days in March. The Tennessee Chapter of the ACS joined with the Tennessee Medical Association March 1 to participate in the 2016 Day on the Hill in…