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Woman's 3-year wait for donor organ exposes complexity of US transplant system

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Woman's 3-year wait for donor organ exposes complexity of US transplant system

After a severe car crash destroyed Katherine Screws’ small intestine, she was left unable to eat, reliant on intravenous nutrition, and often too ill to leave her bed.

The Phoenix resident held onto her hospital’s forecast that an intestine transplant would take roughly six months.

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