They can sometimes give fatal advice, like influencing liver transplant patients to stop taking their immunosuppresive medications. Transplant surgeon Pauline Chen reflects on this tragic case and speculates why some patients do what they do.
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The thing that amazed me about that story was that the woman who quit taking her anti-rejection drugs received another liver.
Aren’t there people out there who die before they receive a liver? Why would a system give someone who was non-compliant a second liver when others needed a first?
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