{ "docId": "019dd923-622c-750b-8b9a-40e2965928db", "docSlug": "e5bffbaac707", "documentTitle": "TransMedics (TMDX)", "authorId": "58_Scorpion_Capital", "authorName": "Scorpion Capital", "documentKindSlug": "research-note", "documentKindLabel": "Research note", "sourceTypeSlug": "short_seller", "sourceTypeLabel": "Short seller", "presentationDate": "2025-01-10 00:00:00", "orientation": "landscape", "aspectRatio": 1.3333334, "pageNumber": 268, "pageCount": 342, "prevPage": 267, "nextPage": 269, "slideType": "expose_contradiction", "function": "expose_contradiction", "density": "dense", "nDataPoints": 0, "notes": "The slide presents a narrative of professional misconduct and coercion within an organ procurement organization.", "elementsJson": [ "paragraph", "quote_block", "footnote" ], "metadataConfidence": 1, "imagePath": null, "slideHref": "/slides/019dd923-622c-750b-8b9a-40e2965928db/268", "deckHref": "/decks/019dd923-622c-750b-8b9a-40e2965928db", "deckJsonHref": "/decks/019dd923-622c-750b-8b9a-40e2965928db.json", "deckAnchorHref": "/decks/019dd923-622c-750b-8b9a-40e2965928db#slide-268", "components": [ { "bbox": { "h": 0.03, "w": 0.45, "x": 0.07, "y": 0.58 }, "kind": "callout", "text": "CEO's sister allegedly badgering people to transplant defective lungs", "attrs": null, "subkind": "primary", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "dc880360-6d68-4cea-8380-ffbaa45a9b92", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": null, "kind": "callout", "text": "The OPO executive alleged that the CEO’s sister Amira Hassanein, who runs the failed lung program, is as “confrontational” as other executives in badgering and coercing surgeons to accept and transplant organs they have already rejected as dangerous to their patient.", "attrs": null, "subkind": null, "toolName": "Visual emphasis", "toolSlug": "visual-emphasis", "confidence": null, "componentId": "019dd953-5373-719d-a987-f53a4e740ca8", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.45, "w": 0.86, "x": 0.07, "y": 0.07 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "The OPO executive alleged that the CEO's sister Amira Hassanein, who runs the failed lung program, is as \"confrontational\" as other executives in badgering and coercing surgeons to accept and transplant organs they have already rejected as dangerous to their patient: \"Waleed's sister is in charge of the lung program...we had some lungs...where the accepting center declined...the bronch was not good...the lungs were contused...these calls are 100% happening...I saw her on the line with a transplant surgeon...insisting that these lungs would have a good outcome...I was thinking, 'How do you even know that?'...well beyond her scope to insist, badger a surgeon who made a decision that transplanting this organ could put her patient in jeopardy and to sit here for 15 minutes working to actively convince them to make a different clinical decision...I've never seen anything like that...confrontational, speaking over people...speaking as if she's their boss, their attending surgeon, insisting that the organ will have a good outcome...'you don't understand the machine, you don't understand the machine....\"", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "0fec4d94-f74a-46b4-b383-29a8a468db38", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.32, "w": 0.86, "x": 0.07, "y": 0.62 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "Q: \"One surgeon told me that there are organs sometimes that he doesn't want to take, and he then gets badgered by Magdy Attia pressuring him to take them. Have you seen them try to force people to take marginal organs?\"\nA: \"Waleed's sister is in charge of the lung program....she is the one that I have witnessed do this. We had some lungs in that situation where the accepting center declined; the bronch was not good. The lungs were contused when they were recovered and I was able to witness some of those conversations myself....these calls are 100% happening...I saw her on the line with a transplant surgeon who's trying to weigh the clinical outcome for her recipient. And Amina would be on the line with her, just insisting that these lungs would have a good outcome after they were transplanted. I was thinking, 'How do you even know that?' This is confusing. I'm also not a surgeon, but it just seemed well beyond her scope to insist, badger a surgeon who made a decision that transplanting this organ could put her patient in jeopardy and to sit here for 15 minutes working to actively convince them to make a different clinical decision, I've never seen anything like that...confrontational, speaking over people, really speaking as if she's their boss, their attending surgeon, insisting that organ will have a good outcome and they're jeopardizing the patient's safety if they don't transplant it, and it's all because \"you don't understand the machine. You don't understand the machine.\" - Executive at a leading OPO, longtime industry veteran", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "476c4fba-5a24-41dd-9c88-395d876ba330", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": null, "kind": "quote", "text": "“Waleed’s sister is in charge of the lung program....she is the one that I have witnessed do this. We had some lungs in that situation where the accepting center declined; the bronch was not good. The lungs were contused when they were recovered and I was able to witness some of those conversations myself....these calls are 100% happening...I saw her on the line with a transplant surgeon who’s trying to weigh the clinical outcome for her recipient. And Amina would be on the line with her, just insisting that these lungs would have a good outcome after they were transplanted. I was thinking, ‘How do you even know that?’ This is confusing. I’m also not a surgeon, but it just seemed well beyond her scope to insist, badger a surgeon who made a decision that transplanting this organ could put her patient in jeopardy and to sit here for 15 minutes working to actively convince them to make a different clinical decision, I’ve never seen anything like that...confrontational, speaking over people, really speaking as if she’s their boss, their attending surgeon, insisting that organ will have a good outcome and that they’re jeopardizing the patient’s safety if they don’t transplant it, and it’s all because ‘you don’t understand the machine. 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