Following recent organ donor scandals, German doctors are now calling for increased legal powers to investigate suspicious cases.Public outcry broke out as it emerged that a senior physician working at two university medical centres in the northern federal state of Lower Saxony, and Bavaria, southern Germany, had supplied organs to a favoured list of transplant patients.Although the Bavarian authorities were informed in 2005, no intervention was made for 7 years. This delay allowed the surgeon to move on unchecked to another university medical centre in Gottingen, where, now head of department, he was involved in over 20 further cases of professional misconduct.
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