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Entries from Seattlest tagged with 'livertransplant'

May 2, 2008

Timothy Garon, the local man who was denied a life-saving liver transplant because he used doctor-prescribed medicinal marijuana, died late Thursday.Garon was recieving hospice care at the Bailey-Boushay House where he died, according to a press statement by his lawyer. Few stories we've written or read lately seem as tragic or senseless as Garon's. We doubt, if Garon had been able to medicate his pain with morphine or pills, that we would be writing......

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April 28, 2008

Timothy Garon in Hospice Care with his girlfriend, Leisa Bueno - AP Photo/ElaineThompson Timothy Garon is 56 years old and dying of liver failure. Without a liver transplant, he will die in a matter of days, but the University of Washington Medical Center has decided he is not a fit candidate for a possibly life-saving transplant. The reason? Garon used physician-prescribed medical marijuana to treat the symptoms of hepatitis C, the disease that is killing......

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