DANIEL ZAMPOGNA, The Patriot News
It has to be a numbing feeling for a patient when a doctor says a heart transplant is needed, but an even more terrible feeling when that physician then says the dying person can’t get one.
That is what happened to Paul Corby of Pottsville.
The 23-year-old was born with a problem that does not allow his heart to pump the right amount of blood, and he was informed by a doctor that he would not get on a heart transplant list.
The reason for denial, however, was ethically questionable.
He was denied “given his psychiatric issues, autism, the complexity of the process, multiple procedures and the unknown and unpredictable effect of steroids on behavior,” according to the letter Corby released to the public from a cardiologist at Penn Medical.
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