Woman Denied Liver Transplant Due to Alcoholism—but She Hadn’t Had a Drop to Drink

Feeling Guilty

“As I went over the medical record of the patient and learned the situation of the patient, I started feeling obliged to do something for this patient,” Tamama said, “because she might have been falsely mislabeled as an alcohol abuser.” He decided to conduct an experiment…

Running Tests

Tamama and his team took Leland’s urine sample and put it on ice. After incubating the sample at 98.6 degrees to mimic the environment of the body, the researchers saw that Leland’s urine had “remarkably high levels of ethanol production.”

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.