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With deaths from alcohol-related disease on rise, some in the field are rethinking criteria that exclude patients from life-saving care
By Samantha Laine Perfas
During one of his first rotations as a medical student, John Messinger had a patient in his 40s with alcohol-related hepatitis. Because the patient had been treated for alcohol use disorder and relapsed, he was ineligible for a liver transplant. Messinger watched the patient deteriorate, knowing more could have been done to save his life. Read the full story in The Harvard Gazette.
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