MEMPHIS, TN (abc24.com) - The battle over body parts is heating up in the Mid-South. Supporters of Mid-South Transplant Foundation are pointing fingers at Methodist Hospital doctors, saying they are misleading the public. They accuse the hospital's doctors of trying to scare people into believing there will soon be fewer organs available for transplants.
Truth is next year there will be fewer organs available if your or a loved one needs to get a transplant.
Mid-South Transplant Foundation Director Kim Von Frank isn't mincing words about Methodist Hospital's transplant business practices.
"The current system, in essence, discriminates against those patients that don't get their transplants at Methodist," she said. "The current system allows Methodist first right of refusal to many livers, giving patients at Methodist opportunity to get livers much quicker; many times these patients go ahead of someone in greater need."
It allowed the late Apple founder Steve Jobs to come to Memphis and get a liver much faster than if he's stayed in his home state of California.
In fact more than a third of patients on Methodist's waiting list for a liver aren't from Tennessee.
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