Reassignment After Heart Transplant Mix-Up At Medical College
At the Medical College of Georgia a hospital employee handling organ procurement was reassigned after a nurse misread a donor chart leading to a heart from a Type B donor being transplanted into Major Wright, a Type O recipient from Sylvania, now in critical but stable condition at University Hospital. The college declined to identify the employee.
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Arthur Humphries
George H. Foster
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Wright
Sylvania
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