Organs-for-sale scandal

Title

Organs-for-sale scandal

Genre

News report

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:01:47

Description

Report on a (General Medical Council?) hearing in the case of three doctors - Dr Raymond Crockett, Mr Michael Bewick and Mr Michael Joyce - accused of acquiring a kidney from a live Turkish man under NHS treatment without proper consent and transplanting it into a private patient at the Humana Wellington Hospital, London. Female reporter not identified.

Contributors

None Identified

Keywords

Crime; Medical ethics; Organ transplantation; Kidney transplantation; Organ donation; Doctors; Surgeons; Raymond Crockett; Michael Bewick; Michael Joyce; Human Wellington Hospital; National Kidney Centre

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