Thursday, January 10, 2013

Mass donor organ fraud shakes Germany | World news | guardian.co.uk

Mass donor organ fraud shakes Germany | World news | guardian.co.uk
German medical authorities are calling for an extensive overhaul of the country's organ transplant programme after transplant centres across Germany were placed under criminal investigation over allegations that they had systematically manipulated donor waiting lists.
A doctor in Göttingen is reported to have had written into his contract that he would receive bonus payments for every liver he was able to transplant, a system of rewards already deeply criticised by Germany's medical authorities.

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