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Federal prosecutors say a prominent Houston transplant surgeon manipulated patient records in a way that kept several critically ill people from receiving lifesaving organs.
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A grand jury in Houston indicted Dr. John Stevenson Bynon Jr. last month on five counts of false statements relating to health care matters. The charges were made public last week. Bynon served as director of abdominal organ transplantation and surgical director for liver transplantation at Memorial Hermann Health System.
According to the indictment, Bynon falsified medical information for five patients between March 2023 and March 2024. Prosecutors allege the changes made the patients ineligible to receive donor liver offers without their knowledge or the awareness of their families or care teams. Three of the five patients later died. The other two ultimately received transplants at different hospitals.
Dr. Bynon is alleged to have betrayed the most sacred duty of a medical professional – to heal,” U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei said in a statement. “He stole years and hope from those who trusted him most by falsifying records and preventing patients from receiving organ transplants.”
Court documents state one patient was blocked from receiving organ offers for about 149 days before dying in February 2024. Another was ineligible for roughly 69 days and died in December 2023 during transplant surgery. A third patient who required an “urgent liver transplantation” died two days after Bynon allegedly entered donor criteria that severely restricted eligibility.
Bynon’s attorney, Samy Khalil, defended his client following an initial court appearance.
“Nothing he did was unlawful. Everything that he did was lawful and in good faith,” Khalil said. “We look forward to clearing his name in a court of law and educating, frankly, the government on the medical concepts that undergird this totally, totally misguided prosecution.”
Memorial Hermann temporarily shut down its liver and kidney transplant program in 2024 after the allegations surfaced. The Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network later designated the hospital as a member not in good standing. Civil lawsuits filed by families of deceased patients remain pending. If convicted, Bynon faces up to five years in prison and fines of up to $250,000 per count.
My friend was one that had her chart altered . Watching her do everything asked of her , all the appointments while he manipulated her chart making her ineligible for transplant but continued to lead us on . The sacrifice as a caregiver alone is nothing compared to what she went through and the delay in the liver transplant caused kidney damage leaving her on dialysis. What gives him the right to play God ????!