Submitted photoIn the operating room“All the programs have done the math and have determined that if your outcomes are trending low into a gray zone, the best way to get out of the gray zone is to go conservative. Whether we want to say that that is an appropriate correction ... or whether we see this as the problem, governmental scrutiny is resulting in fewer transplants.”— Dr. Andrew Cameron, pictured far left, the surgical director for Johns Hopkins Medical Center’s liver transplant program

High-risk patients are being denied transplants due to government regulations that evaluate transplant centers based on their one-year survival rates post-transplant. Yet each year, thousands of viable donor organs that could be used to save lives are being thrown out.