A whistleblower in Dallas has filed a lawsuit containing disturbing allegations about the organ donation industry.
Patrek Chase, kidney transplant program director at Parkland Health in Dallas, claimed that patients at his hospital – which generally serves a poorer population – were passed over for a healthy organ in favor of patients at UT Southwestern Medical Center, which generally helps the affluent.
Peter Whoriskey, an investigative reporter for the Washington Post, spoke to the Texas Standard about the allegations…