Season 1 Episode 5

Cruel and Unusual

Air date: Oct 23, 2002

Medical Cases in This Episode

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Case 1

Death-row Heart Transplant Ethics

Doctors debate heart transplant allocation for a terminal death-row inmate versus a family man.

Episode shows: Doctors debate heart transplant allocation for a terminal death-row inmate versus a family man.
Clinical takeaway: Death-row Heart Transplant Ethics is included because episode evidence supports a concrete surgery, cardiac, stroke, trauma, transplant, pregnancy, access-to-care, or care-safety issue.

Accuracy 3.6/5death-row-heart-transplant-ethicspatient-safety

About the Episode

Kellerman and Joyner clash over the ethics of giving a heart transplant to a terminal death-row inmate over a family man at the top of the recipient list. Meanwhile, Dalgety and Maggie hack into Donge's cyberdoctor program.

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