Turk claims kidney removed without knowledge

Title

Turk claims kidney removed without knowledge

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

19 Jan 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:03:02

Description

Unemployed Turk, Ahmet Koc claims he had no idea he was going to have a kidney removed at London’s Humana Wellington hospital even though he signed a consent form. Hospital director Ron Hytoff says Koc knew exactly what they were doing. Dr Vivienne Nathanson of the Ethics Committee of the BMA believes the patient was not 100 percent sure what he was doing. Peter Russell reports.

Contributors

Peter Russell; Ron Hytoff; Vivienne Nathanson

Keywords

London; Health services; Medical ethics; UK; Hospitals; BMA; Organ transplantation; Kidney transplantation; Organ donation; Kidneys; Ahmet Koc; Humana Wellington Hospital

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