The Wall Street Journal has a great article on the transplants and the many months of critical care provided to Scott Crawford, the fifth costliest Medicare beneficiary in 2009. His care that year totaled $2.7 million.
But even independent of the cost, the case triggered all the usual medical futility issues: nurse moral distress, an ethics consult... For a public story is is unusually richly detailed.
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