DOCTORS have defended their decision to give a suicidal man with mental health problems a liver transplant.
David Woods, 56, underwent the operation at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, earlier this year.
His family, who live near Cambridge, criticised surgeons saying the liver should have been given to a sick patient who wanted to live.
But health bosses said doctors always had to give “life the benefit of the doubt”. They said patients who wanted to take their own life were always assessed by a psychiatrist before doctors operated.
