Cancer survivor waiting for new kidney is shocked after learning about Memorial Hermann transplant program being suspended [Video]

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A Bryan-College Station man waited six years for a new kidney. Last week, he was informed his transplant program at Memorial Hermann Hospital had been suspended.

Shawn Lawson lost both kidneys to cancer. The new grandfather and father of four spends 3.5 hours on dialysis each morning to survive.

“I got on the actual list. It was 2018 and it’s 2024,” he said.

The New York Times first reported that the doctor who oversaw Lawson’s kidney transplant program, Steve John Bynon, is accused of manipulating a database to prevent some patients from receiving new livers.

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“It makes a feeling of someone is playing with your life,” Lawson explained.

Lawson is partially blind due to unrelated medical complications – meaning relatives have had to drive him four hours roundtrip from Bryan-College Station to Memorial Hermann, often multiple times a week, for the past six …