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[-] Brekky@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In the article, it shows that the hospital spent significantly more slowly letting her die than the average cost of the transplant.

[-] n2burns@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago

The comparison is apples and oranges. They only include the cost of the surgery itself, not the cost of after-surgical care, the potential cost of complications to both the patient and the donor, etc. Then there's the cost if the partial liver donation doesn't take, or if the patient relapses.

Obviously, there's also a lot of potential upside to having the patient survive, I just don't think the odds of that were all that high.

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