Spoiler alert: President Frank Underwood needs a liver transplant in this season of “House of Cards.”
He’s been shot through the abdomen, and a transplant is the only way he’ll survive. Luckily, “House of Cards” is the sort of program that trades in ethical compromise, and so Underwood’s chief of staff strong-arms a cabinet secretary into moving the president to the top of a waiting list for a transplant. The president gets his liver, and a man he leapt in line dies.
Like other storylines in the hit Netflix series, this one has a touch of the absurd. But for STAT, it also begged the question: Could the real president jump the line to get an organ?
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