'Infected' Donor Kidney Killed Retired U.S. Marshal, Wife Claims, and Docs to Blame
A Romeoville man who was a retired Chicago police officer and U.S. marshal died after a kidney transplant at Loyola University Medical Center, and his wife claims the organ was infected.
A kidney transplant gone bad killed a retired Chicago police officer and U.S. marshal instead of saving his life, according to court papers filed last week on behalf of the dead man's wife. Kathleen Murray of Romeoville, the wife of Gerald Murray, claims in her Nov. 9 petition that "Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network knew or should have known before the October 25, 2011, transplant that the kidney was or may have been infected." The petition also blames staff from Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, claiming the transplant team "should have discovered that Mr. Murray's kidney was infected." The petition seeks to identify the kidney donor, something neither Gift of Hope nor Loyola seem willing to do, according to the court …
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Lorraine Hawks
8:38 am on Thursday, November 15, 2012
My name is Lorraine Hawks and I am the Lahey live donor liver transplant widow. I am so sad to read this. Another example of the dark side of organ donation. more ›