One number determines who gets an organ transplant, and it's horribly unfair

over 6 years in Chicago Tribune

We have a liver selection meeting every Wednesday to consider which patients will get transplants. Each patient is listed by name, age, weight, diagnosis and MELD score - a number, based entirely on lab values, that predicts how bad their liver is and correlates with how likely they are to die...

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