People with autism, intellectual disabilities fight bias in transplants
From: Washington Post - 03/04/2017
By: Lenny Bernstein

Paul Corby needs a new heart. On that there is no dispute. The same rare
disease that killed his father at 27 is destroying his left ventricle. While
there is no cure or surgery that might repair the damage, a heart transplant
could extend his life considerably.

But Corby, who lives in Pottsville, PA, is autistic, suffers from several
psychological conditions and takes 19 medications. When he applied to the
transplant program at the University of Pennsylvania in 2011, he was rejected
because of his "psychiatric issues, autism, the complexity of the process and
the unknown and unpredictable effect of steroids on behavior," according to
the denial letter sent to his mother.

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