In early 2020, a director of the kidney transplant program at Parkland Health in Dallas noticed a problem. Patients were languishing on the waiting list for donated kidneys. One patient, he said, had waited nine years for a kidney transplant, and by that time he had become too sick for the procedure. Others died waiting.
"No one should have to wait that long," he said in a recent interview.
He told hospital executives at the time that the delays arose because organs intended for patients at Parkland, which serves a disproportionate share of poor people, were being redirected to patients at nearby UT Southwestern Medical Center, a prestigious academic hospital caring for a more affluent population.
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