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BECOMING A PHYSICIAN Previous Volume 361:232-233 July 16, 2009 Number 3 Next

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"Someone else should get the liver," the patient told me, "somebody with kids or a family." Mr. D. was lying in his hospital bed with his hands folded atop his distended belly. Alcoholism had cost him his career as a software engineer, his marriage, and the goodwill of his siblings. Now it was threatening to cut his life short. He'd been sober for nearly 6 months and might qualify for placement on the transplant list. But no, Mr. D. told his medical team. Someone else should get the liver, somebody who deserved it more. That was when they called me . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the New York–Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York.

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