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Their appraisals of TransMedics surgeons were just as scathing as those of ex-employees. We quote a highly experienced retrieval technician, who does runs for a leading academic transplant center and has numerous colleagues inside TransMedics: “I work with TransMedics closely in operating rooms and [I’m] hearing feedback from surgeons at the University of [redacted]”; “it was shocking to find out that surgeons are not licensed...some are problematic because they’ve been through a disciplinary system...and can’t get jobs...often when you hear that you have a career procurement surgeon, you know that there’s probably something shady in their past, and that’s just the way it is.”", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "72192e4a-c5ca-43da-af95-131900d0223a", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.15, "w": 0.86, "x": 0.07, "y": 0.52 }, "kind": "quote", "text": "Organ procurement technician has extensive interaction with TransMedics teams in operating rooms. \"I work with TransMedics closely in operating rooms. The connections I have to TransMedics are just working with them in the operating room, hearing feedback from surgeons at the University of [redacted] and then my connection to [names redacted] and people that work at TransMedics. I'm on the procurement side. I travel with the surgeons to get the organs and then bring them back.\" – Organ procurement technician at a high-volume Northwest academic transplant center", "attrs": null, "subkind": "testimonial", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "784bf0ec-e847-4bf7-9aff-36ee228f72a6", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.22, "w": 0.86, "x": 0.07, "y": 0.69 }, "kind": "quote", "text": "\"Shocking to find out that surgeons are not licensed\"; troubling and \"shady\" backgrounds. \"The procurement world is different; it's not regulated like the regular medical community is. I've been doing this for four years and it was shocking to find out that surgeons are not licensed...some are problematic because they’ve been through a disciplinary system in this country and can’t get jobs elsewhere. Often, when you hear that you have a career procurement surgeon, you know that there’s probably something shady in their past, and that’s just the way it is.\" – Organ procurement technician at a high volume Northwest academic transplant center", "attrs": null, "subkind": "testimonial", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "7a83b88b-9d05-49a2-b2c4-47966b45ede3", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": null, "kind": "quote", "text": "“I work with TransMedics closely in operating rooms and [I’m] hearing feedback from surgeons at the University of [redacted]”; “it was shocking to find out that surgeons are not licensed...some are problematic because they’ve been through a disciplinary system...and can’t get jobs elsewhere. 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