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Default Teen heart transplant recipient dies in chase with the cops.

So much fail here. I say the mom ought to be made to pay pack every last cent it took to perform the heart transplant. Somebody more deserving should've got that heart.

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A suburban Atlanta teenager who received national attention two years ago after doctors turned down his request for a heart transplant was killed Tuesday in a high-speed police chase.

Anthony Stokes, 17, of Decatur, Georgia, received a transplant to replace his failing heart in August 2013 — but only after a hospital reversed its decision denying him a spot on the transplant list because of his brushes with the law.

Doctors rebuffed Stokes because he had a "history of noncompliance," and they did not think he would take his medications or show up for follow-up appointments, Stokes' mother said. The hospital changed its mind after his mother accused doctors of punishing her son for a history of run-ins with the law.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-co...-chase-n334001
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