As a young medical student, he had taken the Hippocratic Oath and pledged 'first, do no harm.' But here he was, purposefully infecting one of his patients with hepatitis C.
As a young medical student, he had taken the Hippocratic Oath and pledged"first, do no harm."It was March 13, and just hours before, his patient, Betty Huart, had undergone a liver transplant to cure her liver cancer. But the new, donated liver that was supposed to save her life was tainted with the disease -- a serious but curable infection that affects the liver.
Other medical centers had successfully implanted a diseased organ too. In 2015, Johns Hopkins hospital successfully saved a woman who has been waiting for a liver for three years. After the process of antiviral recovery was explained to her, she agreed to be transplanted with a liver infected with hepatitis C. Two months later, the virus was undetectable, her doctors said.
"I did not want to get as sick as some people [on those lists]. … I just knew that that’s not what I wanted to do," said Huart, who lost her father to liver disease in 1987. "The medicine just emaciated him. Emaciated him to where he looked like he was just a suit on a hanger," said Huart. Huart tried not to get her hopes up – they had already raced to the hospital twice before, only to be told that the surgery wouldn’t go forward for one reason or another.Huart and her husband arrived at the hospital around 8:30 p.m. By midnight, though, the surgeon still hadn’t taken her back to the operating room. The couple started to get nervous.
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