How a hospital avoided removing organs from living donor

Recent allegations have raised questions about the activities of groups charged with retrieving organs for transplantation. A man was thrashing on the gurney and had tears in his eyes as he was being wheeled in for the surgery to have his organs removed — not dead. The operation was stopped and the man is living with his sister now, impaired but still very much alive.

NPR’s Rob Stein reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.