Disabled Patients Say Doctors Are Denying Them Organ Transplants
Gabrielle Bluestone · 12/01/13 11:43AMFive-month old Maverick Higgs was born with a severe heart defect, and two surgeries later was still in heart failure. He needed a heart transplant, and fast. But after initially saying he was a candidate, the child's New York-Presbyterian doctors decided there was nothing more they could do to help. They said Maverick had six months to live.