What are the odds of a Diabetic in bad health to receive a liver transplant?!


Question: What are the odds of a Diabetic in bad health to receive a liver transplant!?
My father n law is in the hospital!.Sending him home in four days for in home hospice care!. He has lupus, Psoriasis of the Liver and is diabetic!. They put him on a liver transplant list but tells him he won't live for more than a month and has a very rare chance he would get a liver!. So why would a hospital put him on the list in the first place!? He has always been in very bad health and even if he had the transplant its likely he will survive anyways!. So why cause more speed bumps in the road of transplants for other people waiting by putting someone who isn't a good candidate on the list and in the way!.

Don't get me wrong!. I was already there in the hospital and this made me think because It came from my father n law!. He thinks they are wasting is time and does not want to be on the list but they are refusing to listen to him and are saying he isn't in his right mind to make such a decission but I am sorry, the man was very aware of what is going on!. Anyone's thoughts!?Www@Answer-Health@Com


Answers:
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but to qualify for Hospice a person must be considered about to die!. The hospital is required to put him on a transplant list if that is the a request in the patient file!. There is a chance that a liver would become available that he is the only possible person to receive, but it is very doubtful!. Www@Answer-Health@Com





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