and you're looking at your watch and you just walked out on me. >> reporter: new york presbyterian declinedepeated request for an interview and in a statement told us evaluations are conducted with compassion and bring the best ethical, medical principles to the process. maverick's parents didn't give up. they filed a federal discrimination complaint against the hospital and got him transferred to a new hospital that didn't have the same transplant concerns. eventually, it turned out maverick got better without a transplant but that hasn't ended the controversy about whether transplant doctors discriminate against patients with disabilities. >> and elisabeth joins us now. happy holiday weekend to you? >> and to you. >> what does the future look like? it seems to do well now. >> he's definitely doing better. he still has this heart defect, that's a very serious defect. he will need anothsurgery and m need a transplant later in life. >> in your mind, how cut and dry is it? what kind of latitude do these doctors, these teams have? >> doctors have a lot of latitude when they decide who gets an

when he was at new york presbyterian, the mother says they didn't do anything. he was dying.rt failure. it's documented in the medical records. when they got to boston, they tinkered with his medications and he got better. something that the boston hospital did that the new york one didn't do appears to have gotten him better. >> they filed suit, this couple. >> they filed a complaint. >> what happens now? >> the office of civil rights is going to look at that complaint and see if his civil rights were denied. by denying him the transplant, were they denying it because of his disability. if they find that he was, it's going to be a problem for the hospital. >> thanks so much. we'll be right back. across the country has brought me to the lovely city of boston. cheers. and seeing as it's such a historic city, i'm sure they'll appreciate that geico's been saving people money for over 75 years. oh... dear, i've dropped my tea into the boston harbor. huhh... i guess this party's over. geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. for aveeno® posit

>> maverick was just six months old and desperately needed a new heart, but his doctors at new york presbyterianl said no. >> i was scared he was going to die. every day. it's the only thing that i thought of. you know? and there was actually a point where we were planning his funeral. >> maverick, who's 1 now, was unlucky enough to be born with two medical problems. the heart defect and a rare genetic disorder. doctors said he was an undesirable candidate for a transplant because his genetic defect would limit his survival after he got a new heart. >> you did your own research. >> yes. >> what did you find? >> that is not true. >> she didn't accept what the doctors told her. she asked some of the world's top experts about her son's disorder, called coffin syndrome, and they said the syndrome would not limit maverick's chances of survival with a new heart. and that's what they told us, too. doctor grange coffin, the coffin in cafen cyrus syndrome, told us it's wrong to deny someone a transplant because of the syndrome. what do maverick's parents think is the real reason the hospital denied the t

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