San Diego pathologist accused of improperly harvesting children’s organs in Texas lawsuit

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A San Diego physician whose firm was hired as a medical examiner in Texas has been accused in a lawsuit of harvesting body parts from deceased children not for medical reasons, but to boost his research prospects.

The lawsuit accuses Dr. Evan Matshes of practicing medicine in the state of Texas without a license. It also says he and his company, NAAG Pathology Labs PC of San Diego, terminated employees who complained about the practices.Matshes declined to discuss the allegations in the litigation. His company issued statements that rejected all assertions that Matshes, the firm or its chief medical examiner, Dr. Sam Andrews, did anything improper.

Graves is a career medical technician who landed a job with the Lubbock County medical examiner’s office in 2015, after working for decades as an X-ray technician at a private laboratory. The company said it does not perform any medical research. Matshes has a second firm called the National Autopsy Assay Group that provides independent tissue and organ analyses.NAAG Pathology Labs took over the department on an interim basis in August after a former medical examiner vacated the post, the lawsuit states. The agreement was rewritten in October, and Andrews was named chief medical examiner.

The company said there is nothing improper about removing organs from the bodies of decedents whose deaths are under criminal investigation. It also said that the procedure does not require a medical license. According to letters Matshes and Andrews each sent to Lubbock County Judge Curtis Parrish before the lawsuit was filed, the allegations are politically motivated by a newly elected county commissioner who is opposed to the changes that NAAG Pathology Labs implemented to professionalize the department.

 

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'The baby will be kept comfortable...'

The guy is a POS.

Maybe it should be legal though? If the organs aren’t being donated might as well learn something from them.

PPFA does this all the time

Removal of extra autopsy samples for personal research isnt wrong but necessitated alerting deceased's estate. If NAAG implemented professional standards, a simple sign off for redundant samples for inc library in the clear. SecretSecretions why seems dirty.' Michael Bench, MEP

That's research...he's not making Soylent Green !

Trial jail then pay everything he has to harmed families

A really horrible story from horror movies ... Although it may have had noble goals this does not justify what he did!

Alex Jones was right again joerogan

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