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The Department of Health and Human Services decertified Kentucky's organ donation network after a living patient almost had his organs harvested. Fox News senior medical analyst Dr. Marc Siegel discusses the safety failures after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called for ethical reforms to protect patients and restore public trust in the system. Four patients getting routine joint replacement surgeries at a hospital in Nashville allegedly had the wrong drug injected into their spines, leaving at least one woman paralyzed, according to her family. Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown in Nashville on Friday acknowledged an isolated "medication error" in its pharmacy that led to the patients being injected with potassium phosphate instead of a regular anesthetic and experiencing "adverse health reactions," in a statement shared with Fox News Digital. The Tenn
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