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A Hospital Kept a Brain-Damaged Patient on Life Support to Boost Statistics.

"staff discussed the need to keep Young alive for a year, because they feared another hit to the program’s survival rate would attract scrutiny from regulators"

"the transplant program’s director, Dr. Mark Zucker, cautioned his team against offering Young’s family the option of switching from aggressive care to comfort care. He acknowledged these actions were “very unethical.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/newark-beth-israel-lawsuit-darryl-young-heart-transplant