HOUSTON (CW39) – A Houston transplant surgeon has been indicted on federal charges for allegedly falsifying patient medical records, actions prosecutors say left patients unknowingly ineligible for life-saving organ transplants.
John Stevenson Bynon Jr., 66, a former transplant director at Memorial Hermann’s Texas Medical Center, is accused of making false statements that prevented patients on the UNOS liver transplant waitlist from receiving donor organs. He faces five counts of making false statements in health care matters and has surrendered to federal authorities…