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Documents below:
The
Kaiser Permanente response to Hillarie Levy regarding the flagrant
violation of law in having a Permanente physician attempt to coerce
a surviving family member to over ride an advance directive
to obtain transplant material to make money off of yet another patient
without disclosing the full truth. The tissue that Kaiser
tried to obtain to implant into another was diseased. Is
Kaiser
and the for profit Permanente working "Under the Radar"? The
truth be know, tissue can and does transfer disease. Also
Kaiser
cost cutting does make it seem likely that this is an intentional
action on the part of Kaiser and the Permanente. Is it
systemic?
I would think that the state of California would want to find
out.
It
is considered rare to transfer cancer through the corneas but it does
happen. It is not acceptable for use by tissue banks when the
disease has spread throughout the body, but not acceptable behavior has
never stopped Kaiser before. That is fact.
Here
is
a recent study {(April 2006)(Experimental Survival of Metatastic Cancer
Cells in Corneal Organ Culture)} showing that while the transferance is
rare it does happen and is not acceptable under these circumstances:
http://www.iovs.org/content/47/4/1339.full.pdf+html
and at:
https://kaiserpapers.com/robynlibitsky/pdfs/cornealmalignancytransplant.pdf
Wikipedia
also has a nice piece written on this topic for the general public's
viewing. Kaiser does not appear to have yet altered it to
their
favor as they have on other Wikipedia articles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_donation
.....the
price; synthetic corneas
usually cost about $7,000, while processing fees for donor corneas run
about $2,800.
Again from Wikipedia - the price of a cornea at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corneal_transplantation
Corneas are the most common transplant in the United States.
http://www.nvo.com/shildtfinancial/sv003data/
From
Dr. Suda of the Permanente Medical Group.
The
following letter from the California Medical Board clearly shows that
they don't know what they are talking about when they write letters
such as this. First they are greatly mistaken regarding the
advance directive. There was one and no more and that one was
not
recent as Kaiser had conveyed to the medical board.
See:
Letter from One Legacy
To The Kaiser Papers
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