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- a number written correctly, a box checked wrong. What happened?
- a number written correctly, a box checked wrong. What happened?
A single night in Hsinchu turned a five-thousand-case success story into a moral and procedural crisis when a lab value of 56.7 was recorded correctly but the HIV box was checked "negative" twice - and five transplants proceeded. How could one unchecked step let five people receive organs from an HIV-positive donor, and who bears responsibility: the system or its architect?
In this episode, we trace the origins of Taiwan's organ transplant system, the events of August 23-25, 2011, and the missing safeguards that allowed a phone…
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